If you ever get a chance to read the biography about Don
Wallace,
W6AM, you'll see in a number of photos Don's use of wood to
construct antenna support structures. There are even photos of
Don climbing them.
Dave, W7GK
Elko, NV
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: <ersmar@comcast.net>
| To: "Jack" <K4WSB@arrl.net>
| Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>; "DeVinneys" <devinney@vtc.net>
| Sent: Wednesday, 25 February, 2004 11:50
| Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Wooden tower
|
|
| | TT:
| |
| | At the age of 13, too, I used the same 2x4 mast, set in
| about a half-cuft of concrete (I said I was 13!)and guyed to
the
| back yard fence. A half-inch carriage bolt served as a pivot
for
| lowering the thing for antenna servicing - usually putting the
| hoisting lines back onto the pulleys. It also supported my
first
| dipole array - a spider web of 80/40/20M dipoles fed off one
| feedline. The far end of the 80M wires draped over the roof of
| my parents' two-story frame house. The wires literally rested
on
| the shingles!
| |
| | Point is that these lumber-based antenna supports work
| when properly constructed. Keep in mind the early antenna
| support towers were made from wood - Marconi's and Armstrong's
| structures are first to come to mind.
| |
| | 73 de
| | Gene Smar AD3F
| | > In 1959 when I was innocent and a new ham (13 years old and
| broke), I
| | > constructed the mast that was in the handbook. Made out of
| 2x4's and
| | > carriage bolts. I used it for one end of a dipole. Worked
| good and I
| | > still have a picture of it. If memory serves me, my
neighbor
| (now K5RC)
| | > also used it as a support for his dipole.
| | >
| | > At 05:34 PM 2/24/04 -0700, DeVinneys wrote:
| | > >I remember an ARRL antenna book about 30 years ago had
plans
| for a wooden
| | > >tower made out of 1X2's. I never tried it because the
1X2's
| we get in AZ and
| | > >NM would make it look like a corkscrew. Think I'll wait a
| few years on the
| | > >poly tower to see how it holds up to sunlight!KA5W
| | >
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