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Hey, you leave CW McCall out of this.
Tilt-Over Mast For Scanner and CB - A Noobs Endless String of Questions
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Hey, you leave CW McCall out of this.
Looking at your scenarios, I'd choose the Sirio antennas, but I'd go with the higher gain model for the VHF public safety:
GP 3-E
5/8 λ ground plane, Omnidirectional, 135…175 MHz Tunable, Systems: 2m-HAM, VHF Marine Band, ORBCOMM M2M, AIS-162MHz, ISM-169MHzwww.sirioantenne.it
I just got an Amazon alert for this for $59.00. It's from a place called America Media Systems, Inc Reviews are meh, but what the heck, I'll see what I get.
Wow! I got it - perfect condition, unopened, and half the price. Now I just need a building and tower to mount it on 🤣.
slowmover
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Beautiful area. My grandparents started spending their summers there 55-years ago after many years of near full-time travel.
Colorado had become overrun with tourists by then, thus Show Low became that pleasure without the crowds.
Looking forward to how things proceed.
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Colorado had become overrun with tourists by then, thus Show Low became that pleasure without the crowds.
Looking forward to how things proceed.
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You and me both. Man, it is HARD to come to terms with "Mountain Time"... It's a real thing: weather turns nice and instead of making hay while the sun shines - most contractors are off farting around in the woods or whatever. It's not like they can do much in the winter with snow, wet ground, what not. So I sit, waiting for the grader to get around to my little driveway access project, so the concrete guy can build a foundation, so the metal building people can install the structure.
If I have that done by the end of August, I'll consider it a miracle.
Well, that was a little....painful...lol. But it's done. Done and done. I'll be moving up there permanently in a few months so springtime will be when I can get going on things.
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One can dream, right! Lol
James
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Ha, that's "I hit the lottery" level dreaming.
Well, officially moving up here permanently next week - at last.
I picked up this flagpole kit at auction for $33 - seems worth a try to see what kind of antenna mast I can make with it, if possible at all.
Picking it up tomorrow to get a feel for it. It claims to hold (2) 3ft x 5ft flags, maybe it'll hold a Sirio GP 3-E and a CB antenna instead. Especially if I can tie the mast to the side of the building somehow. Lot's of time for this newly retired daydreamer to think about.
I picked up this flagpole kit at auction for $33 - seems worth a try to see what kind of antenna mast I can make with it, if possible at all.
Picking it up tomorrow to get a feel for it. It claims to hold (2) 3ft x 5ft flags, maybe it'll hold a Sirio GP 3-E and a CB antenna instead. Especially if I can tie the mast to the side of the building somehow. Lot's of time for this newly retired daydreamer to think about.
I can't believe it took me a year to notice this pun.
FINALLY! Someone got it!
paulears
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I have a similar swaged 6m 6 section one. The killer is that you need, with a proper head load to consider how it goes up. 3 guys tothe top work pretty well, but with me at less than 2m, that means 4m of unsupported tube and antenna on the way up. My way of doing it on my own needed four people first time. 3 to do the initial guying, and I use a tall extending stage brace (for scenery flats) to push it up, much closer to the top. First time we made sure the guy pegs were all exactly the same distance from the pole on the ground. One extra guy next to the pole with a very short leash to the pole. To do it on my own, I have a bungy cord hooked into the guy rope line about a metre from the end. I pace out the three guy pegs from centre, and connect the ends with the bungy, not the end of the guy rope. I then push the pole up with my stage brace until the bungys get tight, grab the dangling guy rope and walk out with that to the remaining peg. Then one by one I replace the bungys with the end of the line and tension. often I then need to adjust the centre position until it is correctly vertical. This copes with a heavyish D-30 or D-50 size antenna with a dipole outrigged beneath it.
RichM
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As noted CB does not have much on it these days and what is there is not particularly enjoyable to monitor. Consider ham radio, much more active and can be useful during inclement weather etc. A decent 2 meter set up can be had for under $400 complete and the Technician license is an easy way to get on the air.
Use your SDR’s to monitor the CB, 2 meter and HF ham bands, it will give you an idea of what’s out there to see if it interests you before investing in a station.
For scanning it‘s hard to beat a discone, wide band will keep your radio chattering as your interests evolve and change.
Good luck and have fun.
Use your SDR’s to monitor the CB, 2 meter and HF ham bands, it will give you an idea of what’s out there to see if it interests you before investing in a station.
For scanning it‘s hard to beat a discone, wide band will keep your radio chattering as your interests evolve and change.
Good luck and have fun.
I was considering having a fold-over mast made by one of my friends that does this kind of work. Looking around on the YouTube and I find this. I think this fellow has the tallest one of these I've ever seen.
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