Welcome back Bill.
Whats new, tell us all what your up to now?
Jay, WX0B
William H. Hein wrote:
>
> I had to take down a VERY HEAVY full-size DX Engineering 4-L 40m Yagi in
> Colorado last week. Cheapest option was hiring a helicopter (at around
> $500/hour) to pluck the Yagi from its 200 foot perch and lay it on the
> ground. Total cost (including yanking another rather large Yagi from a
> different 200 foot tower and the time for the helicopter to fly from
> Montrose to Tiffany and back) was around $2k. A crane would have run me
> well over $5k. If the helicopter had been based in Durango, 20 miles
> away, total tab would have been under $1k.
>
> Bill AA6TT
>
> -----
> William H. Hein, Restless Records, a Regency Enterprises company
> 1616 Vista Del Mar Avenue, Hollywood CA 90028-6420 U.S.A.
> tel (213) 957-4357 fax (213) 957-4355 mob (213) 305-7157
> http://www.restless.com billh@restless.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dale Jones K5MM [SMTP:ddjones@nas.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 1:20 PM
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Installing & de-Installing big Yagis
> >
> >
> > To 'some' towertalky-uns ---(Those that are interested)
> >
> > The note below is an edited version of a private note that K6KM
> > sent to me (K5MM) this morning. It refers to removing a 3-element
> > Force 12 40 meter yagi from an 80+ foot Rohn 45 tower. (He lives
> > on a very big hill)
> >
> > He and I had discussed the options available to remove that antenna
> > from the tower. The antenna needed some work done to it, and Bill
> > wanted to put this yagi on a different tower.
> >
> > Amongst the options considered were the high tramline, removing
> > the driven element and 'wiggling' the remains down through the
> > two sets of guy wires, removing all the guy wires from one side
> > of the tower and dropping it down via a pulley rig, throwing the
> > whole freaking thing down on the ground/guy wires and forgetting
> > it, using dynamite, etc.
> >
> > I visited Bill over the weekend of WPX-SSB, and we had good
> > intentions
> > to get that antenna down. Intentions were defeated by other fish to
> > fry, resting, sleeping, laziness, and no visible & easy solution for
> > 2 old guys that came quickly to mind.
> >
> > That left him to do the work by himself. The solution below was a
> > creation out of Bill's own brain......and as I've advised him, it
> > must have come from some of the brilliance I've taught him over the
> > years.......hee hee.
> >
> > Nevertheless, I felt the idea he came up with was pretty nifty,
> > and that it ought to be shared with this reflector. No doubt others
> > have thought of this over the years, and moreover we know our good
> > buddy N4AR has done considerable work by himself on his own numerous
> > towrs with big antennas: I just haven't seen much written about
> > how to do this stuff by oneself.
> >
> > Read on, and any questions should be sent to:
> >
> > Bill Snider, K6KM
> > k6km@cncnet.com
> >
> >
> > 73 & GL
> > Dale K5MM
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > ++
> > >At 05:00 PM 4/29/98 K6KM wrote to K5MM
> > >
> > >At last!
> > >
> > >The 3 el 40 is completely on the ground, and the rotating
> > >dipole is up in its place. I was too pooped to rig a balun and
> > >feedline, then tune the dipole. Another day.
> > >
> > > A light bulb lit on Monday (regarding the 40 mtr beam on
> > > the Rohn 45 tower with 2 sets of guy wires) and here's what
> > > I did.
> > >
> > > I installed another guy bracket just one foot below the
> > > top guy bracket on the Rohn 45 tower that has the 3-element 40
> > > meter beam on it. I jury-rigged one (new) guy wire on the new
> > > bracket, on the side of the tower where the antenna boom would
> > > be lowered.
> > >
> > > Then I removed the original top guy, lowered the antenna down
> > > to just above this new temporary temp guy, reinstalled the top
> > > guy and removed the tempotary guy.
> > >
> > > Then I lowered the antenna to the lower guy position of the tower,
> > > removed the lower guy, dropped the antenna a few feet and
> > > re-installed the original lower guy.
> > >
> > > This required a pulley up on the tower mast, of course; the rigging
> > > took an hour or two but the lowering only took about 45 minutes.
> > > The fortunate issue here is that it is 'do-able' by one non
> > > teenaged person. {ed. note: Bill celebrates 50 years of being
> > > being legally on the air next year!!)
> > >
> > > I'm pooped and sore.
> > >
> > > 73 de Bill
> >
> > Not bad for an OF!!...k5mm
> >
> >
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