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I called in some Mexican handy men and two them had it dug in 45 mins. They where worried about slate and or rocks but lucky for them they found none.
The hole is 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 4 foot.
After almost a year I'm finally motivated to move forward with my tower install. Below is a photo montage of the steps in the process.
Prepped and painted the tower
Time for the hole digging.
Had the concrete delivered and placed right next to the hole.
Tower has been planted...
Its been over two months in the top of the pine with no issues! Had several intense t-storms with straight line winds and all is good.
Now the bad news (sort of) is I'm moving to Huntsville in a month and will have to get my tree guy to come back and take down the vector. Not way I'm leaving...
Yes it will. Hopefully it's flexible enough to sway and not snap! Fingers crossed. The silver lining is that the antenna was given to me so I'm only out the tree climbing cost.
I didn't use a tower for my Vector 4000. I used a poor man's tower a big Georgia pine.
It's 110ft to the tip top, and it has a 10k gamma.
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Now if mother nature leaves it alone. lol
I heard 555 Wisconsin solid for a couple of hours this afternoon on my way home from Huntsville to Georgia. Then it all faded out. Quite the rest of the drive home.
The A/P does pretty good for 25ft. My main Maco 5/8 gp received some major damage from hurricane ZETA when it passed over n ga some weeks back. I can still talk on it and the swrs are still low but the rx/tx is not as good. The A/P hold it's own with the damaged Maco.
It's an original A/P from...
Skip is rolling from the NE corner this morning. We have a live gate running for ch 28.
We hear 606 New York coming in loud and proud in the southeast.
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