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Re: [TowerTalk] questions about installing a mast

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] questions about installing a mast
From: Clay Autery <KY5G@montac.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:41:55 -0500
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If "I" were your code enforcement officer, I would prefer to see you use a properly engineered self-supporting tower over a properly engineered foundation vs. a push-up telescopic mast bolted to a chimney and guyed (sort of) to a residential roof.

But I am not your code guy... and have no idea what kind of bureaucracy you'd have to negotiate to get a tower approved without a 360 degree fall zone...

I wish you much fortune and luck in your pursuit!

73,

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Clay Autery, KY5G

On 10/11/2017 8:53 PM, k7wxw wrote:
I live on a small corner lot in Portland and trying to improve my antenna situation. 
Given my lot layout, powerlines and neighbors, a tower or a guyed mast is not 
possible so I am considering an unguyed mast to serve as the centerpoint for a 
dipole. The mast would also host  2M/70CM and GMRS verticals, one under the 
other.

Here's the idea: a 50' Rohn telescopic mast on a Rohn base plate attached with wall 
mounts to my 34' brick chimney.  Can I do this without guying the upper 16' of the 
mast? If I have to guy the mast, can I do so with two guy points on the roof, assuming I 
can get enough of an angle?  I am not sure how to figure this out, not having done 
it before.

Thanks for any help and 73 de bill



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