I have that book, the Don Wallace biography, written
by N6AW. Don's 140-foot high wooden masts for his
rhombics were wooden utility poles. He would take two
70-foot poles and splice them together with four-foot
long pieces of angle iron 2-inches stick -- one bolted
on each side of the pole. Don often climbed the poles
himself to do maintenance. N6AW's book is wonderful
reading about amateur radio and the very history of
radio technology itself. It's a big coffee-table sized
book with many, many photos and was pricey new but if
you ever get hold of a used copy, don't let go. I
treasure mine -- besides I got a new copy for half
price ($30) a few years ago at Dayton. I think it's
the best book on amateur radio ever written but it's
definitely written for hams and not the general public
because it's full of ham jargon, etc. But still a
wonderful book.
73, Dave, N4KZ
--- Dave Hough <dlhough@citlink.net> wrote:
> 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
> | | >
> | | > Jack Hartley
> | | > K4WSB
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> | | > Put your call on the order
> | | >
> | | >
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