The Ten Dollar Antenna Tower, Part 2: It's Done! Let's Take A Look At A Cheap Way To Get It Done.
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- I quick follow up video, The 21 foot $10.00 Dollar antenna tower is finished. The weather here has stayed warm enough to continue working on outdoor projects and I am super happy with the results. This little project was long overdue as I certainly love to listen to the radio here in the house on days that it is to cold to be working in the shop.
My total costs were under $10.00 not including the antennas and the wiring.
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Thats a nice solution for getting a little height.
Thanks
Cool! Im also in the NC mountains. A friend of mine just gave me an old Shakespeare big stick antenna. I need to get that thing up and do some talking
You should! Maybe I can catch you on the radio
I can't wait to start making a home base station in my shed. My jeep has a president Johnny 3 and a Wilson 1000
You will love your new man cave!
Farpoint Antenna Farm! Good job on the install, thanks for sharing.
Thanks man! That video of your restored mower was pure eye candy for me! Loved it!
It’s a thing of beauty !! That is awesome . It’s like staring at a classic car . Great job on the cheap .
Couldn't agree more! I love a cheap project that ends up being easy to build as well!
Another way is to ask the local power or telephone companies for used poles. You may even get one for free depending on their company policies. They’ll out last many of us and they could be happy to unload them. No concrete needed just auger the hole, drop it in and tamp around the base.
Another great show. Like the setup and the location.
RG-8 was all we used 30 years ago - perfectly acceptable , love this video !
Hey Eric I just wanted to get on here real quick and wish you and your family a very happy and safe holiday season and happy turkey day buddy!
Wonderful! This is how it should be done! You, sir, are a REAL ham!
Fantastic low budget build. I am finally getting my radio room sorted. Have my HF antenna hooked up and will be putting up a DBJ-1 Ed Fong VHF/UHF antenna. All the best!
Very nice. 👍👍👍
Add an ears kit to the 99....you'll love it!
I love it Eric. Planning to make one for my gmrs
Excellent ideas 💡
Thank you!
Great work !
Thanks a lot!
Awesome setup👍
thank you
Keep a close watch on the wood at the base where it enters the concrete. A pressure treated post set in concrete is a very common thing to see, but people do not realize they will still rot. I’ve seen it a lot. The wood eventually shrinks some and then there is a gap where the concrete once used to contact it. Water seeps in at the gap and starts the process. Also the freeze and thaw cycles can crack the concrete away from the wood even further, opening the gap and creating others as well.
A good sealant that works in wet or dry conditions is Lexel caulking. Great stuff! Sticks to any surface, wet or dry, but getting adhesion on wet surfaces does take just a little bit if work. Once applied it is permanent. Fill any gaps at the base with Lexel and the post will last a lot longer.
thanks for that tip- i will take a look at it-
Fine job! I like it and it was cheap.
Thanks! 👍
With the size of your property. You should build the Antennas of Antennas. The mighty "Rhombic" antenna, four posts in a diamond configuration with the feed point a half a wavelength to the frequency on the 11m band above ground, the Rhombic will measure around 22f each side, so that would be around 88f total, a full wavelength per side. Four egg ceramic insulators, and some 550 parachord, and you would be on top of the word.
The "Rhombic" is one antenna any Ham would give their left arm to do, simply because the antenna requires alot of land most people dont have.
Had an original *RCI2950!* Loved that radio when it 1st came out! Made a great Base station with an Antron-99 With a GPK and a 500w "foot warmer" powered by a 50A 12v Power supply.
Very cool!
Hey 🎉 friend great 👍 set up 🌄 tilt over antenna handbooks rhombic antenna
Will do!
@@FarpointFarms I used to climb towers but I got good 👍 tongue 😜 lashing no more climbing my last tower was 80foot
Hey Erik, time to install a wood stove in the shop, if it's getting too cold to be working in it! lol
Very nice 👍 but I would cut at least two trees down to allow for a full formation of the wave 🌊.
It would allow the full wave but I really enjoy my privacy and want to keep all the trees I can.
You funny I’m poor I love when a man can say it honestly I can too I’m poor nice to meet you👋😂💕🕯🍗 I think one of these videos as woke up my husband started about two years ago on an antenna to put inside air eaves of our ranch for a better signal oh it’s is still sitting downstairs but it has all kinds a couple wires hanging off of like a cat or them should I say I’ve been there for a while he’s working on it lol
Hey no worries about the age or the price of your antenna as long as it works, I just got my base setup for winter and I didn’t have an antenna or coax so I looked on my local Craigslist and found a Shakespeare Big Stick from 1972 with a roll of 75ft of some Belden 213 Low Loss coax and got it all for $50 bucks and if you’ve seen the prices on new antennas and/or coax prices it outrageous currently that low loss coax is almost $4.00 per foot without ends so I think I got a steal
Nice setup, for the budget savvy learn to make your own long wires, you can cut them for any band or make a linked dipole using powerpole connections to make it all in one. Get a 600’ spool of 14 gauge wire and go crazy. Remember 234/frequency equals the total length in feet of a 1/4 wave, split that in half to get the length of your elements.
Yep don't cut the wire long wire east west no rotors 😮
I live on 40 acres of land .surviving my wires around this land 😊
Awesome set up man. Love that you show how to make it happen with what you have on hand. So, question...No groundplane radials on the Antron? I hear/read, "got to have them" or "nah you don't really need them".
Buy the ARRL Antenna Book - new or used, the same info is there for you to use.
Yes.
Nice !
Thanks! I've been packing you a neat box of goodies. I'll swing over one day and give it all to you.
Farpoint Farms sounds good , I’ve got some stuff you may be interested in as well Swapping overflow 😆
ya, we have a 20' flag pole that we don't use anymore and I am going to put a tram 1499 on it. Just got into this and their seams to be a lot of people in my area I pick up on the one I just put in my car now I am wanting one in my home lol
Great video Eric, just wanted to touch on the MFJ 1778, it's a G5RV the reason you're having better reception on the antron is because that ladder line needs to be clear on everything, and should not be touching itself. It is a resonant part of the antenna. Lastly the G5RV is really only designed for 20m, I had the same antenna with poor performance, you should try to get the legs at a 45 degree angle slope or flat (horizontal) from the ground.
Thanks for the info! Now I am bummed. I have no way to get it up that high, and no way to get the full 30+ feet of that line clear and free. DANG!
I had a ZS6BKW (similar to G5RV) antenna for quite some time, which also had a length of 450 ohm window-line that exceeded my available altitude, which I believe was about 20 feet. I gently twisted the window line, until it looked kind of like a long stretched slinky, and “shortened” it enough to get the coax connector off the ground. I might have had a length of Dacron rope threaded through the helix/slinky/ from feedpoint to a stake on the ground. Anyway, it worked. Food for thought.
Nice. What a beauty, dose it works for gmrs base
Um ... For many folks, lightning isn't much of an issue ... until it happens to YOU ! Despite all my efforts and expenses, I have lost 3 radios and countless antennas from lightning and unseen ground currents. I live in central NC on a tobacco farm, and we have lightning here ! I think the location might be the key because we have lots of subterranean water-filled caverns under us and USGS tells me that is a real potential for lightning generation. I don't know about the Sand Hills but we have it in abundance . Be careful, don't think this won't and can't happen ... it does !
That looks like a G5RV antenna, not a long wire. Technically, a long wire is at least one full wave long at the operating frequency and fed at the end rather than the middle of the wire.
Thanks
Cool setup just one question why did you coil up so much coax at the base of the antenna?
The MLA 30 has incredible performance for its cost.
I am amazed!
No your rich, rich in spirit !
Eric nice video I’m setting up my first home base and I’m going to do exactly the same, by the way I can’t keep your theme song out of my mind 😂, how is that set up doing.?
Still working well 5 years later!
Would something like this work on a verizon jetpack? I live in the mountains in ky and I have an antenna thats just a little window unit that suction cups right onto your window that does ok but I was thinking about doing something like this and stumbled onto your video and thought i'd ask.
I thought window line has to be hung up in the clear. Won’t mounting it to a post cause issues?
The long wire picks up more noise as well, no surprise there. You need a tuner just like transmit. Its works both ways.
I had no idea.
@@FarpointFarms the radio wants to hear 50ohms. A long wire isn’t fully resonate all the way from end to end etc. BIG signals will make it but little stations won’t unless you either trim the antenna or add wire or adjust the impedance with a tuner. Remember those telescoping rabbit ears on the back of your childhood TV? They were adjustable for frequencies not just collapsible for easy transport. The bowtie for UHF was smaller bc uhf freqs are smaller etc. 73
open wire line does not go in the ground... just a heads up, coax is fine. nice videos W4PBS
I noticed the same thing, so many things wrong with this setup but maybe he is just learning but to learn correctly, he should do research on these type installations and using "Ladder Line, or balanced line", even look at the ground connection? wrapped around another ground wire is NOT a good connection
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Hi Erick im from ireland have a question for you did you run your coax underground if so what did you run them through.great vidio and cheap to install
I was going to ask that, too. Good question. I was thinking "Hopefully he used some kind of conduit or PVC..." but from the close ups in the video, that doesn't appear to be the case.
I believe he said “direct buried “
So no conduit
Looks great why not paint it a black ,or gray to protect the wood? Not only protect the wood from termites, rot and what not. But it will look better too in my opinion. Nice set up btw.
If the tower was more visible, I would have painted it. It is hidden behind the garage so I just kept it looking "natural"
@@FarpointFarms Haha okay that wood is probably pressure treated anyways. I recently had some gale force winds 40mph. I used rope as guy wire. It worked... No need to dump a lot of money on this stuff sometimes. The sad ham may be upset though. lol.
I want to build same thing but my cable will be 200 feet long, do you think I will have a higher swr,or bad signal because of the length of the cable
Not if you use RG-213 or LMR-400. Those have very little line loss, and great noise insulation
@@FarpointFarms ok thanks
So Im in Colorado sitting at 9,000 ft alt and I just pulled out my old cb and got myself an Antron99 sitting at about 38' tall. Morning till about noon-1pm'ish I get crazy skip most days and I dont have anyone to compare but I feel like Im reaching HAM ranges on receive but so far no one hears me ( my radio could be damaged transmitter ). In Colorado I hear everywhere in the US to a point I find to be nutty. Im hearing Florida all the way up the east coast to Maine once. I hear mostly east coast, somewhat central heartland states, gulf coast states, and then from there I hear lots of California and up the west coast. I DO NOT hear much north of me I assume cause of the mountains. As I said no one hears me yet and I need to get a new radio but what I hear is insane.
Also at around 1pm the noise floor is so high I dont hear much for the rest of the night. I find it odd I dont hear much of anything late nights even on clear winter nights.
I am seeking a new radio that has SSB and hopefully solid transmit. I dont want to amplify but I want all the best equipment for a STRONG transmit. Any idea's?
Mla 30 you can cut the wire inside and install a BNC then take that mini 8 off the CB and use it on the mla 30 (further reducing the noise floor) then put Lmr 400 on the CB 99. 🤣🤣🤣
What is this song for the into?
It is my theme song that was written by a fellow youtuber Marky Shaw
From my own understanding from reading up and researching i thought R8 coax was better than 213 for loss i also thought that ham banders used R8 for this reason because although thinner it's better quality.. or am i getting it wrong, please advise thanks.
RG8 is old military standard. RG8X its what your thinking of and what was used in the video. RG213 (or LMR-400) is better by a mile if you can afford it though especially at vhf/Uhf freqs. RG8X is fine for 10Mhz and below though. Stay away from rg58 except in very short runs.
Certainly not a Rohn but i guess it works.
Bet you won't get a 4x4x16 for 2.00 ever again. 😢
You are right on that one, my wife can get some good deals at Lowe's but not that good anymore.
I'm broke like you. Nice job but $9 to expensive!!
At HF frequencies, RG8x is just fine. basically a waste to use anything more for a 50ft run.
try some phone farming phone apps that would help you out.
I will bet you if you made that antenna yourself, it wouldn't have cost 1/4 of what you spent on the "bought off the shelf" antenna already made up! Wire antennas are so simple, and so cheap if you make them yourself! Even verticle antennas that aren't yagis are cheap to make out of thin conduit, you would be better off doing it yourself. You would learn antenna theory by constructing antennas from a book, than waiting for one to be shipped to you! Try it sometime, you will be hooked. AND you will never be looking at a website for antennas ever again. Older Hams from the 60's-70's had to make their own cause only the very few could afford the prices back then. THEY "worked the world" on homemade antennas, are you willing to admit you can't?
Agreed, but it's time vs money and I currently have neither.