my antenna and station pics

[airplane1]

here are some pics of the shack and antenna + a link to my album.
http://www.worldwidedx.com/members/airplane1-albums-my-small-shack.html

 

[park]

Very clean set up!

 

[Highlander_821]

That antenna looks marvelous up there!

 

[Sonwatcher]

Roger, that looks great !

 

[Peddler]

I would be courious about the tower height. I would guess that's a 5/8 antenna.

Thanks

 

[airplane1]

Thanks guys, the antenna is a Maco 5/8 and the tower is 30ft + 6ft of mast to get the 5/8th to 36ft at feed point.

It is free standing as of now but there calling for very high wind advisory today and tonight so I prob will not sleep to well. I am going to bracket it to the garage at 14ft and then put one more section up to get it at 46ft to feed point.

I have a PDL-2 to try so I am glad I made a tilt base, It only took two of us to push it up and one guy putting a 10ft post on the steps of the tower to hold it as we repositioned to push each time.

 

[airplane1]

here is a few pics of my home made tilt base for the tower, I got the leveling plate idea from traffic light poles as I was sitting at a stop light one vday and seen how they are setup.

 

[Sonwatcher]

I see. Each angle iron swings together. Pretty neat !

 

[Peddler]

Thanks for the info...mine is also a 30ft tower. I have considered taking down all the junk and replacing it with a 5/8 of some sort...As it is now, there is a M104c with an A99 atop it. I can't do the tower crawl and mine doesn't tilt so I'll have to hire a tower monkey .

 

[rfoverlord]

Nice pics guys!

 

[Switch Kit]

That antenna looks marvelous up there!

DITTO !!

 

[airplane1]

Nice Peddler, I think that your antenna setup is great. I think of the same idea many many times in my head. I was going to put a maco 103 beam up with a imax 2000 above.

How does that setup work?

 

[Peddler]

Works fairly well...The 104 is at 39 ft and the A99 base is at 43 ft. The rotor is not big enough. The pipe is about 22 ft 1 1/2 id (1 5/8 od) sch 40 black pipe and heavy but it doesn't bend. I was thinking about a simpler setup with less maintenance.

Thanks
Jim

 

[KB1TPX]

here is a few pics of my home made tilt base for the tower, I got the leveling plate idea from traffic light poles as I was sitting at a stop light one vday and seen how they are setup.

Nice engineering, good design, simple, strong and functional.

 

[airplane1]

Thank you 7732granitestate,

I wanted a simple design but strong and believe me it is and was so cheap to build too.

Got most of the pieces from scrap they were thowing away here at work.