wyomingmedic
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- Aug 17, 2008
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So I am BORED and the weather was perfect to take a few pics. So I figured, I had better do the updates I promised everybody. Wife is due ANY DAY with the baby, so I cannot go traipsing into the woods.
So here is the tower. 50 feet of Rohn 45 size. 6 element HF beam at 51 feet. The cross beam is a full 8 foot 2x4 which holds a dual band ground plane for scanning and a weather station on the other end. At the very top of the mast is a dual band x-50NA fiberglass antenna. It is about 6 feet long and hooked to my yaesu radio.
The tower is guyed HEAVILY and bracketed at the house at about 20 feet. The bracket is homemade. We live on a huge hill and get winds over 100mph every winter. The base is a HUGE chunk of concrete with all of the ground systems tied in.
As the coax (all LMR-400) goes into the shack, it is hooked to a common point ground with each having it's own lightning protection. The brass plate is 1/4 inch thick ad 30ish inches long. Every electrical entrance into the house ties into this plate. The plate is tied to an array of ground rods.
For 40 and 80 meters, I have a pair of phased Chshcraft verticals. Top loaded at almost 30 feet tall, they do put out a potent signal. All are tied to a system of buried radials.
The shack in the basement is far less assuming. It is located in a spider infested corner of the basement. Dual band Yaesu rig and a 2 meter rig for backup. Cheap MFJ tuner and the rotor controller for the beam. The HF radio is just an 857D. Doesn't look like much, but it has worked me over 200 new DX entities in a year. ANTENNA ANTENNA ANTENNA. Bencher CW paddles round out the mix. A LOT of BK handhelds line the shelf and all of my gun tools pile up in front of the TV. Certainly my little corner of heaven.
That be all for now,
WM
So here is the tower. 50 feet of Rohn 45 size. 6 element HF beam at 51 feet. The cross beam is a full 8 foot 2x4 which holds a dual band ground plane for scanning and a weather station on the other end. At the very top of the mast is a dual band x-50NA fiberglass antenna. It is about 6 feet long and hooked to my yaesu radio.
The tower is guyed HEAVILY and bracketed at the house at about 20 feet. The bracket is homemade. We live on a huge hill and get winds over 100mph every winter. The base is a HUGE chunk of concrete with all of the ground systems tied in.
As the coax (all LMR-400) goes into the shack, it is hooked to a common point ground with each having it's own lightning protection. The brass plate is 1/4 inch thick ad 30ish inches long. Every electrical entrance into the house ties into this plate. The plate is tied to an array of ground rods.
For 40 and 80 meters, I have a pair of phased Chshcraft verticals. Top loaded at almost 30 feet tall, they do put out a potent signal. All are tied to a system of buried radials.
The shack in the basement is far less assuming. It is located in a spider infested corner of the basement. Dual band Yaesu rig and a 2 meter rig for backup. Cheap MFJ tuner and the rotor controller for the beam. The HF radio is just an 857D. Doesn't look like much, but it has worked me over 200 new DX entities in a year. ANTENNA ANTENNA ANTENNA. Bencher CW paddles round out the mix. A LOT of BK handhelds line the shelf and all of my gun tools pile up in front of the TV. Certainly my little corner of heaven.
That be all for now,
WM
very nice my humble opinion. Gotta go rate it now
