[VHFcontesting] Brain pickin' time

[Nate Duehr]

A local ham here took a smallish crank up tower, built a frame capable
of tipping it over with another electric motor and cable/pulley assembly
by balancing it at roughly it's center of gravity when fully retracted
(think "catapault" here), and put that frame/motor/battery/cable
assembly on a flatbed trailer.... then added simple mechanical/manual
outriggers to the trailer...

It all goes up in a matter of minutes.  The expensive part was the brand
new small commercial crank-up.

--
  Nate Duehr, WY0X
  nate at natetech.com

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:34 +0000, "jlchapman2 at juno.com"
<jlchapman2 at juno.com> wrote:
> Mike and the group,
> here ya go, dig through this site, can't even tell you what the cost
> would be for the mast you may decide upon.  Bolt and secure it to a
> trailer add antennas and away you go.  
> http://www.shakespeare-military.com/masts.asp?product=mast
> The masts are similar to what ENG truck use.  Don't think you want to
> spend the coin on a WilBurt, even if you got it used, you would still not
> to obtain a set of O rings for the repairs.
> You probably could find an ENG van somewhere, but the time an effort to
> get the engine/tranny, etc road worthy may not be truly worth the
> expense.
> caveat emptor, YMMV
> John
> KC5MIB
> EM21
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: "Mike 
> Cc: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Brain pickin' time
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:15:29 -0500
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM, <kb7dqh at donobi.net> wrote:
> 
> > Guess it depends on what kind of hills you got...
> 
> Hills...Those are all far more expensive than a small trailer, the
> insurance & registration
> is a fraction of additional vehicle, it doesn't have to pass emission
> testing and the general maintenance is a heck of a lot less.
> 
> 
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