Natural Tower

[Chong]

It sure is nice having a natural tower being a ham hehe and its also nice to have cheech (look in the tree) to put my antennas up there. In the tree i have at the top an antron99 then the next lowest is a quarter wave 2 meter antenna and the lowest antenna is my 40/80 dipole. Next thing going up is a hustler g6 for 2 meter.

 

[Highlander_821]

That's totally awesome.

 

[Chong]

mmhmm

Yea it does the job pretty good.Thinking about putting the HF dipole up higher that would be nice =]

 

[park]

Chong,

Give me a try sometime on 3.968 Saturday and Sunday mornings from about 0800 to 1000 CT.

AC5PS

 

[Chong]

ok

alright will do

73 de kd8epc

 

[AE5RD]

I wish we had trees that tall in New Mexico. All I have is 60 ft powerlines surrounding my house.

 

[Chong]

that sucks

thats the only tall pine i got in my yard but theres also 5 other trees just as tall but sense the pine is closest to my shack and its the easiest to climb thats where the antennas go. Also i got some more pictures from up in the tree here they are

 

[Marconi]

Chong that is up there alright. I had the same idea at my place twice over the last 30 years. First one was a big stick in a pine, and lightning got it and destroyed the tree as a result. Many years later I put an A99 in another pine and it was up about three years and in the early spring of the fourth year the tree died. I had the tree cut down and I checked the entire tree and it was not infected. It was 37" at the base and was very tall. I think that RF may have had something to do with killing the tree. Something to watch for.

 

[Chong]

tree

Thanks for the advice ill watch to make sure i don't kill the tree.That trees been there so long it would be very odd not having it there. We got the idea to put antennas in that tree because at my old shack we did the same thing except it wasn't as high and it wasn't a pine. Hopefully it'll work out alright i know i can talk pretty good with antennas up that high.

 

[niterider]

What a great view.. So how tall is the tree over all?

 

[Chong]

tree

The tree measures about 87 feet at the top its a tall tree. Makes the antennas get out real good.