Made a life changine decision..........
Today I got the hazer (elevator) device off the tower. Decided not to use it at all. Finished taking the yagis apart and stacked temporarily, and strung out the feedlines into "what I will use" and "not use," removed rotator, control cable, and messenger wire.
This afternoon, I climbed up and put the mid guys back up, then went up and hung the VHF/ UHF monopole. I'll have to go back up once more, after modifying the pulley arm (yardarm?) for the dipole pulley, and also hang the TV corner reflector.
Here's some shots from aloftq
Below, random shot holding camera above my head
Below, top left you can see block used to raise and lower hazer unit, and when cable is unhooked, run over roof to an anchor (tractor) in front, the same winch will tilt the entire down in the back yard. Top right you can just see the mounting for the monopole, and at bottom you can just glimpse my gorilla hook and work belt.
The S shaped tube hooked to the two top guys is a jumper wire, jumpering two of the guys below the insulators. This was an experiment with mixed results, for a ground fed "inverted L" antenna. You feed the bottom of one guy against some ground radials, and the jumper interconnects the two radials. This was not resonant, I may play with it some more later
Guys and clips. They are not "Guide wires" nor are they "cable clamps" and that is not "cable." It is Guys, "guy wire" or "wire rope" and those are properly known as "clips" How do you know which way to apply them? Easy. "Never saddle a dead horse." The body of the clip looks a bit like a horse saddle. You put the clip body on the "live" (working) part of the wire, and the U bolt goes on the "dead" end.
You are supposed to use THREE not two
Below, the VHF / UHF monopole. This is an import copy of a Comet antenna for 2 meters and 450 mhz amateur bands. I actually have not been on either of these for some time. This is a fair antenna for scanning
Today I got the hazer (elevator) device off the tower. Decided not to use it at all. Finished taking the yagis apart and stacked temporarily, and strung out the feedlines into "what I will use" and "not use," removed rotator, control cable, and messenger wire.
This afternoon, I climbed up and put the mid guys back up, then went up and hung the VHF/ UHF monopole. I'll have to go back up once more, after modifying the pulley arm (yardarm?) for the dipole pulley, and also hang the TV corner reflector.
Here's some shots from aloftq
Below, random shot holding camera above my head
Below, top left you can see block used to raise and lower hazer unit, and when cable is unhooked, run over roof to an anchor (tractor) in front, the same winch will tilt the entire down in the back yard. Top right you can just see the mounting for the monopole, and at bottom you can just glimpse my gorilla hook and work belt.
The S shaped tube hooked to the two top guys is a jumper wire, jumpering two of the guys below the insulators. This was an experiment with mixed results, for a ground fed "inverted L" antenna. You feed the bottom of one guy against some ground radials, and the jumper interconnects the two radials. This was not resonant, I may play with it some more later
Guys and clips. They are not "Guide wires" nor are they "cable clamps" and that is not "cable." It is Guys, "guy wire" or "wire rope" and those are properly known as "clips" How do you know which way to apply them? Easy. "Never saddle a dead horse." The body of the clip looks a bit like a horse saddle. You put the clip body on the "live" (working) part of the wire, and the U bolt goes on the "dead" end.
You are supposed to use THREE not two
Below, the VHF / UHF monopole. This is an import copy of a Comet antenna for 2 meters and 450 mhz amateur bands. I actually have not been on either of these for some time. This is a fair antenna for scanning
