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#21
02-08-2010, 03:29 PM
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Use the rear end out of a rider lawnmower standing on end.....
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#22
02-08-2010, 06:23 PM
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Many years ago in a cabin in North Carolina. PDL-2s on the roof, had a pipe wrench on the mast, I'd send the wife up and yell out the window. I thought it was a pretty good system till she almost slipped off. Middle of winter and snow and ice all over the roof, I told her to straddle the peak and she'd be OK. She bought me a rotor shortly there after, true story.
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#23
02-08-2010, 07:07 PM
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You guys are killing me...
 I'm putting a pipe wrench on the mast now though. Heh...
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Base: Uniden Washington, D104, Imax 2000 on top of a Sirio 3 element beam. Mobile: Uniden Grant, Minuteman D104 and K-40 Ham: Various equipment for HF, UHF and VHF
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#24
02-08-2010, 07:49 PM
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Ya put a ridin mower transaxle on end an weld/bolt yer mast to a wheel an then bolt it on the transaxle. Where the driveshaft would hook to the TA which is now sticking out the side, you can bolt/weld a shaft on it an run it thru the wall in the house an put a small steering wheel on it to turn the beam..... Don't laugh, I seen this done and it worked pretty dang slick. It was right by a window. He had marks on the mast to see which way/direction the beam was pointing....
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#25
02-08-2010, 08:47 PM
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My issue is I live in a very old residential neighborhood in this old victorian on a corner with a separate garage on the side. So I'm kinda stuck. I have this 36' foot mast sticking up on the back of the garage with the 3 element and the vertical on top of that. To me it looks fine. My neighbors simply tolerate it. I raise it up when I talk and lower it back down when I'm done.
I want to put up a crankup tower which can fit on the backside in the 'L' of the house and the only thing that would be visable would be the very top of the beam laying down over the roof with the vertical over the roofline. I can crank it up about 10 feet when I'm using it. Then I can put in the rotor. Anything more will just look too out of place. So, in the meantime, I'm just messing around with this set up to get the feel of things and most importantly I'm not causing any interference with all the precautions - and I mean alot of them - taken. So far - so good!
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Base: Uniden Washington, D104, Imax 2000 on top of a Sirio 3 element beam. Mobile: Uniden Grant, Minuteman D104 and K-40 Ham: Various equipment for HF, UHF and VHF
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#26
04-15-2010, 07:45 PM
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WHERE ARE YOU
HEY old 7 where in the cold country are you
IM in northern alberta cold here too 
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#28
04-25-2010, 09:53 PM
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alot of cbers do around here.we found that if ya mount a verticle stick above 36ft. ya really dont need a verticle beam. local ham op. has a maco5/8 on a 60ft. tower and a moonraker on a 36ft tower the maco talks just as good as the moonraker on verticle. so id just buy a seperate tower for your imax 50-60 ft range and just contiue using what your using for ya beam
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