cable run?

[kb2vxa]

I never really thought about it, maybe you could ask someone with a TV antenna on one. The power company isn't your only option, check the Yellow Pages under erectors.

That reminds me of a funny thing I saw a while back. A new company put it's sign out front along a highway and the name on it was Sky High Erections. Now before you die laughing someone didn't think it was so funny, a week later it read Sky High Erectors. It's times like this I wish I had a camera with me.

 

[donc13]

"Using a piece of WOOD as your "tower" is definitely NOT the correct way to go."

Hams living down on the farm tend to disagree, many use old wooden windmill towers after installing electric pumps. It's a simple matter to ground the antenna(s) using the same conductor and earthing rod you'd use on any other non conducting structure.

What I tend to disagree with is using an untreated wooden plank as a mast. Paint will protect it from weathering but sunk in the ground you have termites and damp rot to contend with, that's where pressure treated creosote poles come in handy. I know several hams using "telephone poles", how installing one compares to a steel tower and concrete base price wise I never asked.

Heh, there's this wooden skyscraper up the street with an antenna on it but it's on the JCP&L power substation property. Gee, I wonder why they didn't put up a tower. (;->)

Of course properly grounded structures can be used as 'towers' no matter what they're made from, but if you look at his 'discussion' there was no conception of grounding either the mast or the lead in.