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It has to be. Picture an Explorer-14 tribander with the 40m add-on kit at the top of a Trylon T-500 tower @ 62 feet. At about 68 feet a Cushcraft A3WS dual bander for 12/17m. At 72 feet a homebrew heavy duty six element yagi for 6m and at 75 feet a Cushcraft 13B2 for 2m weak signal. I neglected to mention the length of aluminum pipe inside the galvanized inner pipe where it extends out the top of the tower. Mast thickness at this point is pretty much 1/2 inch and extends for eight feet from about a foot below the top of the tower to seven feet above. Just the single 2 inch ID mast extends above that point. I could have spent big $$ for a chromoly mast but this is just as good and far cheaper plus I had the pipe cluttering up the back yard. As for heavy.......yeah. No idea exactly but the mast alone weighs about 100 pounds or more and is 22 feet long in total.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 533266, member: 39"] It has to be. Picture an Explorer-14 tribander with the 40m add-on kit at the top of a Trylon T-500 tower @ 62 feet. At about 68 feet a Cushcraft A3WS dual bander for 12/17m. At 72 feet a homebrew heavy duty six element yagi for 6m and at 75 feet a Cushcraft 13B2 for 2m weak signal. I neglected to mention the length of aluminum pipe inside the galvanized inner pipe where it extends out the top of the tower. Mast thickness at this point is pretty much 1/2 inch and extends for eight feet from about a foot below the top of the tower to seven feet above. Just the single 2 inch ID mast extends above that point. I could have spent big $$ for a chromoly mast but this is just as good and far cheaper plus I had the pipe cluttering up the back yard. As for heavy.......yeah. No idea exactly but the mast alone weighs about 100 pounds or more and is 22 feet long in total. [/QUOTE]

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