I want to put up a multiband trap dipole. I have a mounting point on the roof of my house which is about 10 or 11 metres high. I'd like to put up an antenna support mast at the other end of the garden, then suspend the dipole between the house and the mast. If I wanted to anchor the mast into the ground what to I need to do to anchor a 10 or 11 metre mast? I'm not going to support a 9 element HF yagi from the mast, just the other end of the dipole, and maybe in the future a vertical
I'm guessing I need to dig something like a deep fence post hole, then put in the mast support, then fill it with concrete.
Questions:
1) What should I use for the support, a steel pipe? How thick? What diameter for a 10 to 11 metre mast support?
2) What should I use for the mast itself given that it will be 10 to 11 metres high? What kind of pipe or tube, and how thick?
3) How to I anchor the mast to the support? Bolts?
4) Prefer not to have to bother with guy wires etc.
5) I live in sub-tropical Queensland Australia, where cyclones are possible though I don't think there's been one recently... This might affect the requirements.
I'm guessing I need to dig something like a deep fence post hole, then put in the mast support, then fill it with concrete.
Questions:
1) What should I use for the support, a steel pipe? How thick? What diameter for a 10 to 11 metre mast support?
2) What should I use for the mast itself given that it will be 10 to 11 metres high? What kind of pipe or tube, and how thick?
3) How to I anchor the mast to the support? Bolts?
4) Prefer not to have to bother with guy wires etc.
5) I live in sub-tropical Queensland Australia, where cyclones are possible though I don't think there's been one recently... This might affect the requirements.