New Tower

[928bolo]

Concrete poured for base of tower #2 today. It has been raining so much this summer in eastern Pennsylvania it was difficult to schedule the contractor.

Also, not much top soil here. Go down about 3 feet and hit the rock ledge. Contractor has to drill into the mountain and cement in the rebar cage in the rock. Same goes for the guy anchors. Quit a chore and not cheap.

Tower is 60 feet of Rohn 25g with a tilt over base

Antenna is a DX Engineering Skyhawk (3 el on 20, 3 el on 15, and 4 el on 10). The elements are assembled. Just have to mount them to the boom.

Rotator is mounted in the tower (Yaesu G-2800DXA) and tower is assembled.

Now need a few days of good weather when my helpers are off work to get it up in the air.

Hope to have it up in time for CQ WW SSB contest at the end of October

 

[Moleculo]

Love the pics of your tower under construction - keep 'em coming!

 

[Blackcat630]

I echo Moleculo. Keep the construction pics coming. This is inspiration for me to get the other tower planted. I have antennas in the shed and they don't work too well in cardboard.

Good luck on the project!!
73

 

[928bolo]

Here is a link to some photos of the station build so far.

The house was awful but in a great location. Located at the top of a 2,220 ft ridge, and slopes down in all directions. Very rural and no man made noise.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ULGYECVcgdktEWyc9

 

[Eldorado828]

From a cb'r with an elementary level station, the word that comes to mind when seeing the work done and results in that set up is "finesse"

Very well done

 

[Moleculo]

Those pictures are awesome. Would love for you to cross post a few here so I can feature them on the homepage.

 

[928bolo]

Upload them to this thread? How many would you like?

 

[928bolo]

A couple more pics for Tower #2. The rebar cage, the tilt plate, and the hazer.

We decided to try a hazer to make it easier to service or add another antenna.

Going up today to assemble the tower and install the hazer. Oh....it is a 2 hour drive from my house to the ham shack.

 

[928bolo]

Saturday was a beautiful day and we were able to get a lot done. Tower is assembled and mounted on the tilt base. The hazer and it's winch installed and the boom for the new antenna was completed.

Sunday's chores will be to set up the guy lines and mount the antenna elements to the boom.

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[928bolo]

Sunday is a washout. Back at it next week

 

[The20poundhammer]

Hey I have a tower project going on and putting a hazer on it. I am wondering if yours is a commercial made or a home brew?

 

[BJ radionut]

Products (rtinnovations.net)

About the only guy I know left, still building new complete systems.

Ton's of info via Google about the old/no longer produced Glen Martin system.
I have seen several discussion groups and other individual builders via YouTube vids around.
Also there was the option for 25G using a "Half" section of 45G as a frame for homebrew type.
All the Best
Gary

 

[The20poundhammer]

Well I have a RTInnovations Razer mounted just getting the wheels adjusted and the winch mounted and it will be ready

 

[928bolo]

We have one built by Angel, WA4AV. https://sites.google.com/site/antennavator/

Well built and fit the Rohn 25 perfectly. No adjustments necessary. He doesn’t provide stainless steel nuts and bolts so we bought our own.

We also had to supply the winch and pulley which we got on Amazon for about $200. We are using a 120v winch. We also replaced 35 ft of 1/8 inch the cable that came with the with 120 feet of 1/4 inch aircraft control cable.

We bought from Angel because a fellow ham friend has them on three of his towers.

 

[928bolo]

In addition to bears and coyotes we now have a Bobcat.