The stick is a cheap (forgot name) 2M/ 440 dual band antenna
Man, that sure looks like a Diamond. If it is, it's not cheap.
Top beam is a fairly expensive Cushcraft 6M beam, but it has swr problems 6 elements on 6
Just for shts and grns try disconnecting the vertical and see if your SWR problems are solved. I had my 2m/440 vertical mounted atop my 4 element 2m yagi on the same vertical mast and they reacted off each other, but I had a selector switch that grounded the unused antenna. once I moved them more than a wavelength apart horizontaly, the issues stopped....Just a thought is all.
Bottom beam was free for the taking, sad story. The owner had got killed near Spokane, working on some other tower, which turned out to be NOT PROPERLY ANCHORED. It's a big 'ol Wilson "System One." I thing the boom is 26 ft. It's a pretty big beam, 4 elements on 20/ 15, and 5 on 10M
Sorry to hear about this. Climbing freaks me out and I refuse to do it. I'll go on a rooftop but no tower climbing for me. 26'? Damn!
All this rides on a home made "hazer" cage which wraps around the tower and can be winched up or down. So I can get most of it down to roof level You can get an idea of the hazer the mast and rotator are on brackets on the outside of the hazer, on the right side. Also on the hazer lower, is two UHF TV corner reflectors, pointed off to a translater site
That tower is a good example of what you can do on the cheap. The tower sections came from three separate used towers, the hazer winch was a garage sale cast iron geared winch for 25 bucks, I got a good deal on a used rotator the HF beam was sorta free, and the 6m beam was 75 bucks. I even scored some big rubber covered cable for rotator control cable from a garage sale cheap, and had some heliax from other commerciall upgrade projects.
The hazor itself, I bought the "wrap around" pieces from Hazer, and made the rest out of angle and strap iron. If I could still climb (arthritis) I would not have built it.
One guy goes over the house into the front, used to be a tree. So to raise it, I use the winch with a steel "rub plate" on the roof peak, and use the front guy to tilt it up. The house becomes a "gin pole."
What a great solution! Me, being such a chicken, will need to get a tilt up telescoping tower and they are not cheap. Since I just moved, I'm still getting the garage sorted out then I'll get my vert and yagi up on seperate masts plus my G5RV. Since I'm still a tech, I only have a little slice of ten but I like to listen in while I work in the garage. I'd like to think that I'd have my General Class by spring.
Sad story is, the sunspot cycle hasn't been all that impressive.
I did stumble in one night to find Christmas Island on 10m Worked him first call barefoot. Radio is normally a Yaesu MK-V "Field", AL-80B amp, single 3-500Z
Man, I've been hearing the guys hear rave about the cycle, but I've been busy as hell buying a house and all. I've got an Icom 2800 in the work van and use my Icom 7000 for a base plus have a Yeasu FT60 HT. Tons of repeaters out here on the mountains and boy do they get out.
For 6 and maybe 2 SSB I have an Icom 706MKII (not a G)
Here's a drawing of the model Hazer I built. I bought the 6 pieces that wrap around the tower, and built the rest myself As I recall, the six pieces I bought were less than 60 bucks with shipping at the time. A complete Hazer is around 500 bucks I believe.
