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With the crane and especially the concrete pump, your approach was stellar. I do have one question though. The specs for the MA-770 indicate a max wind loading (at 62 foot height @ 85 mph) at a paltry 1 sq. foot. antenna area. What am I missing?

Also noise at 120MHz here...

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Imagine having to live beside that eyesore.

I love that. Beautiful tower and beautiful antenna. Congratulations! John, 2E0SVB.

Nice and Tres belle réalisation 73's Best regards

Great video. I would be interested in plans for the racquetball racket loop antenna. I am playing the video over and over and having trouble getting the details. I love this.

4:53 This is where I was confused looking at my TMM-433ss instructions. I didn't realize that the grout was added after the fact. So the tower is sitting on leveling nuts and once plumb, the nuts remain and grout was forced in inder the base? In my manual it showed the leveling nut in the grout and It didnt make sense, now I think it does. Thanks for showing that

Looking to put up a tower such as this one when I can get the money. About how much did this cost you? mast, concrete, and all?

My neighbours just installed some solar panels I don’t have my hf radio up and running yet but I’m gonna be pretty annoyed if theirs cause this

Experiencing the same issues and of course gone at night.

Thanks for confirming that the solar edge systems are incompatible with HF operation. AE8YL

hah, novel approach. This is a non-resonant loop and not amplified for this video right?

OK, here goes! Check out '73 magazine article dated April 2016 "Can Home Solar Power and Ham Radio Coexist?" for a possible cure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't discover this article until AFTER I had eighteen panels and a Solar Edge system installed on my QTH. BUMMER, Bummer, Bummer. I can't afford the fix so I have to drive 15 mi to the mountain(s) or 15 miles to the entrance to the Antelope Island State Park gate's parking lot to rid myself of the noise level! DE KA7MWQ

very interesting, do you have any link to show how to build your setup ? I'm interested in checking my system.

I have a four element steppIRin the air now that went South on me , I am considering this same Antenna now , how well do you like it ? have you had any issues 73

When did the neighbors start the battle of the eyesore?

I live in Northern Utah and I am getting a loud "whirr" noise around 14.198. I have neighbours around me that have solar panels. I haven't checked at night, but I might do that this weekend. I might add ferrite chokes on my feedline to my UNUN to see if that helps.

Yeah, I have found the same in my home! The inverters produce an armonic wave around 425-435 Khz ( close to the 455 KHz IF ) that is mixed in conventional superheterodine radios ( in 2nd, 3rd or 4rth conversion ) and so it cause the upgrade of background noise in all the bands... This dont happen in SDR receivers because they directly sampling all the frequencies, without mixing! I saw the 425-435 KHz noise in my SDR-1 receiver!!! you can see also Here: th-cam.com/channels/JuvZDo-M2yqmd3SyWkiEfw.htmlvideos?disable_polymer=1 I have fixed it with a 10 cells High pass pi-filter in serie to the receiver only (bypassing the tx section) with a cut frequency of 1,6-1,7 MHz. Best Regards ALDO MERISIO - ITALY IU2IKW

I love that idea for the RFI “detector”. I may use that in the future

Do you happen to know the model numbers of the old solar optimizers that had RFI issues?

Hey folks...I am about to install solar on my home and my understanding with only a little data is that the Microinverter approach (Enphase) is considerably quieter than the SolarEdge/optimizer route. Does anyone have practical experience with this option? WB0CDY

Thanks for the info. I have read the articles referenced. I returned from vacation to find my neighbor had solar panels installed. The display of my FLEX on receive was pretty much solid yellow vertical stripes. I can work around a lot of the noise by diddling settings, but the interference is really bad, all the way up to 6 meters, but worst on 40 meters (full time s8). Solar Edge and HD Wave inverter. Not sure what's next but working on it.

Great presentation. Only one comment. Run it slower or narrate it. I must be a slow reader. I found myself either looking at he photo or reading the text and by the time I read the picture was changing. Other than that. Great job/ nice set up.73

So what did you do to mitigate the RFI? Did you file a complaint with the FCC? Did you confront the homeowner? Did you talk with Solar Edge? I am also having severe RFI problems from my neighbor's solar array. They may not be using Solar Edge. Thanks, Roger AC6BW

while the new setapp invertors having terible wifi, supose the antennas are not that well as previous models hdwave. hard job to fix installations for 2 clients a day this way. Zeversolar instead is working pretty good with the clients wifi connection.

Cool!

Can I ask what did that cost?

beautiful setup maybe one day I can afford to get a retractable monopole. Would be nice to take down when storms coming and raise back up afterwards.

This is how it should be. Great work. If anyone complains about the size just tell them their invited at superbowl time and the pictures good.

Nice, clean tower, and what a big antenna! Just curious what the max. allowable antenna wind area is for the MA-770MDP?