Well 888, I see that over-engineering idea didn't go quite as anticipated. At least the tri-mount didn't give-way or break. Sorry to hear those light weight tubes from Lowes/HD didn't hold up.
You tell us above that you now are using two 10' sections of conduit with a bolt, but then you note that the overall height is only 10' feet. It looks taller, but I guess you either double walled the new conduit together for better engineering, or you made a typeO with the new overall height.
I know that some fence railing that is supposed to fit together with a compressed 6" tip at the ends does not fit for vertical applications worth a hoot, too loose-a-fit. I haven't checked out the sizes of conduit like you used however. How well does that 1" stuff fit with the 1.25" conduit? Is it reasonably snug going together?
New setup is looking better. Hope the guy lines are anchored into the short side of some 2x4's in the attic with some nice long heavy eye screws. If you doubled the height, be sure and check the Power line distance from the service pole to your weather-head again, and make sure the new height will not get into that area if it comes down again.
Yeah, I wasn't too worried about it, I got the Menards antenna mast on sale for like $6/section anyways.
You're right, that was a typo on my part. Total NEW antenna mast height is about 15 feet overall. Two 10 ft sections together, 5 ft overlap to give it some rigidity.
They don't snug together by any means, there's a gap, but I don't really worry about it too much. The guy wires let you keep it from..uhh.."wilting" to one side".
The power line safety idea, I took as much into account as I could. I'm clear from the main lines, however, there's no getting away from the house connection. Luckily, it's on the east side of the house.
With the way I've got my antennas set up, there's no way they'll fall east, only southwest. Every guy wire is reinforced, and every hook is either screwed into a roof stud or into a 2x4 on the other side to distribute the pulling force. Each hook is about 3" of threads dug into wood. The aircraft cable is rated wwaayyy in excess of my application.
I like a durable antenna setup.
Only thing I have left to do is add that second guy wire hookup, and I want to move one of the 10m mast's hooks over a few more studs. I don't have them perfectly at 120 degrees, and I want to get them closer to that.
I will say, through this, that tripod had been really durable!
If I put ONE more antenna on the roof, I'll be using one of those 10-ft ladder-style tripods. I'm soo done with guywires. I love how durable they are, but I'm getting tired of calculating, measuring, and swagging cables!
-Richard-