Xray
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- May 24, 2005
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Window for mounting antennas on the roof is closing quick, gotta get it up this week. This is a diamond discone have had it for decades, when I got my roof done last year the roof guys just cut it lose and pitched it off the roof, I was pissed but I forgot to tell them it wasn't junk. Was bent up and bruised but I rehabbed it [after taking a look at what they go for new]. So I bought 1 50 ft run of WILSON-400 Ultra Low Loss Coax Cable and am about ready to go.
Mast was 20 ft, I clipped it down to about 15 ft for no particular reason. Roof is a PITA to get on, I have to climb out my bedroom window onto a porch roof then basically jump and belly flop onto the roof, holding on to a clunky gutter for leverage. Pitch isn't bad, I can scramble up there on 2 feet. I already went up there last week and attached the mounts to my chimney, I wanted to use banding straps but I couldn't borrow a kit from work. 3 clamps, I ended up just using ratchet straps with the banding undernsath the straps, I was worried about the corners eventually fraying and shredding on the chimney, the metal banding under the straps will prevent that and actually, I think 3 straps is overkill I was going to use 2 but I already had the mounts and straps and figured I ought to use them. I am going to put the antenna together on the ground and leave the cable dangling, tied up. Then all I have to do is haul it to the peak, drop it in the waiting ubolts and tighten them up [Other option would have been to put the mounts on the mast then fastening them to the chimney, I think that would have been impossible and very dangerous for 1 guy, I would have needed someone to hold the mast while I strapped it up to the chimney]. From there I will run the cable to a vent in my attic at the side of the house and dangle it in front of the vent, and hopefully I'll be able to fish it into the vent, through the ceiling and into my room. If not, I'll have to obtain a 40 ft ladder, I forgot how I did it last time.
I'll post a pic if I can when I'm done, I typically don't take my phone with me when climbing a roof, but I'm geeked up about having my discone back. Used it for years and years with my old 2006, now I have a SDS 100 and will likely get a 200 too.
Mast was 20 ft, I clipped it down to about 15 ft for no particular reason. Roof is a PITA to get on, I have to climb out my bedroom window onto a porch roof then basically jump and belly flop onto the roof, holding on to a clunky gutter for leverage. Pitch isn't bad, I can scramble up there on 2 feet. I already went up there last week and attached the mounts to my chimney, I wanted to use banding straps but I couldn't borrow a kit from work. 3 clamps, I ended up just using ratchet straps with the banding undernsath the straps, I was worried about the corners eventually fraying and shredding on the chimney, the metal banding under the straps will prevent that and actually, I think 3 straps is overkill I was going to use 2 but I already had the mounts and straps and figured I ought to use them. I am going to put the antenna together on the ground and leave the cable dangling, tied up. Then all I have to do is haul it to the peak, drop it in the waiting ubolts and tighten them up [Other option would have been to put the mounts on the mast then fastening them to the chimney, I think that would have been impossible and very dangerous for 1 guy, I would have needed someone to hold the mast while I strapped it up to the chimney]. From there I will run the cable to a vent in my attic at the side of the house and dangle it in front of the vent, and hopefully I'll be able to fish it into the vent, through the ceiling and into my room. If not, I'll have to obtain a 40 ft ladder, I forgot how I did it last time.
I'll post a pic if I can when I'm done, I typically don't take my phone with me when climbing a roof, but I'm geeked up about having my discone back. Used it for years and years with my old 2006, now I have a SDS 100 and will likely get a 200 too.
