The story line, the calm collective explanation, the video quality, the editing....Absolutely incredible. One of the best videos I seen about antennas, ham radio in my life on youtube in the past 14 years.....Excellent sir...A thousand thumbs up if i may....Thank you...
put a pulley on the tower, you pull it with the gator. Don't forget the #77 pull lube and somebody to feed it in the conduit at the house so it doesn't kink W9DLP (I had to use a cable pulling winch, but I pulled 4-LMR400 and 4 1/2 hardline)
Thanks for the video. If I ever am blessed with acres of land I will look upon this video series to remind me that, it's too expensive to put up a tower. Enjoy your tower, but even if I had the money, I could not justify the expense of putting up a tower. I'd put up a long masts on which to install verticals for HF, VHF and UHF. Still Enjoy and hope to work you with my indoor HF antenna from my New York City 12th story apartment.
I am curious about the tilting mechanism. Where did you get that and is that an optional add on unit meaning the tower sections can either have a standard coupling in that spot or add this tilting mechanism in its place for a few extra $...I have two self supporting three leg towers that I hinge at the bottom but that puts a huge stress at that hinge point when I let it down. When you can move it up the tower that takes a lot of stress away from that hinge point. Obviously this unit would not fit my tower. I would have to build my own.
Hi Randy, My only question and concern is, why did you put the tower so far from your ham shack? If it were me, I’d have the tower as close as possible to avoid excessive coax runs. Consider using hardline for the higher frequencies. A lot of times you can get excess coax from the local cable companies... For a small nuisance fee, there willing to give you the excess cable from the end of the reel. And sometimes they’ll give it to you for free..... It’s 70 Ohm! But the low loss more than makes up for the slight impedance mismatch... I’ve been doing this for years now and never had any degradation of the hardline at all.
@@robertmitchum2972 Yes, I agree it is not what one would think would be the ideal location. It may have been in a comment on one of the other videos but I do recall him saying it had to do with how the house sits on the property, their view, and the guidance of his wife. ;-)
Why is it that so many people fail to use washers under bolt heads and nuts, especially when they need to move????? Not sure why the love of 259 connectors when N-type are cheap and easy enough to use and perfor way better along with staying dry.
Wouldn't it have been easier to put the conduit in in short sections, so you only had to pull it through the first section, all the rest you could just slide over the cables and glue the joints. Then put the conduit into the trench and back fill it.
The story line, the calm collective explanation, the video quality, the editing....Absolutely incredible. One of the best videos I seen about antennas, ham radio in my life on youtube in the past 14 years.....Excellent sir...A thousand thumbs up if i may....Thank you...
It did my heart proud to see you coil cable the proper way.
Learned from doing TV remotes in my college days.
love your sense of humor, keep them coming Randy
Really enjoying this tower project series. 👍
Useful tip on winding cable. Thank you
Wow, another great episode....kudos to DX Engineering
Nice to have some help from DX Engineering.
Old aircraft rules. Never splice inside a conduit. Enjoying your project.
I enjoy watching this series....I can't wait to see how it ends!
Me too
put a pulley on the tower, you pull it with the gator. Don't forget the #77 pull lube and somebody to feed it in the conduit at the house so it doesn't kink W9DLP (I had to use a cable pulling winch, but I pulled 4-LMR400 and 4 1/2 hardline)
Wanting to do about the same with my tower set up, that is when I can get around too it. Been going back and forth on what type of coax to use.
great tower project Randy. Looks like it'll be a great station. Congrats ! Looking forward to the next episode ;) 73 de DL7XT
Thanks for the video. If I ever am blessed with acres of land I will look upon this video series to remind me that, it's too expensive to put up a tower. Enjoy your tower, but even if I had the money, I could not justify the expense of putting up a tower. I'd put up a long masts on which to install verticals for HF, VHF and UHF. Still Enjoy and hope to work you with my indoor HF antenna from my New York City 12th story apartment.
Great job Randy, cable pulling lubricant will make the job easier and avoid cable burn, but you probably already know this 😊
Randy - hope you're planning on pre-lubricating those cables as they enter the conduit. Hopefully you have a good winch to pull it all with.
Wench? I hope she's pretty. ;-)
@@hornhospital Lol... Can't spell... meant winch.
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Tnx Randy. I enjoy your tower project.
73's from Croatia.
Enjoying following your project. I would venture to say few Hams get the privilege to design and install a complete new station. 73 de N7CX
Love watching your build. But I think I would have put the lighting arrestor at the tower where its close to the source.
The project is looking great, looking foward to the next video..joe ei4gx
I am curious about the tilting mechanism. Where did you get that and is that an optional add on unit meaning the tower sections can either have a standard coupling in that spot or add this tilting mechanism in its place for a few extra $...I have two self supporting three leg towers that I hinge at the bottom but that puts a huge stress at that hinge point when I let it down. When you can move it up the tower that takes a lot of stress away from that hinge point.
Obviously this unit would not fit my tower. I would have to build my own.
Check out his earlier video. I believe he said that it was a custom order, but the company does specifically make the tilting tower.
The penetrox will dry up Jeff from DX) use SS-30
I saw Tim and Jeff talking about that on their Facebook live video. Ordered!
Hi Randy, My only question and concern is, why did you put the tower so far from your ham shack? If it were me, I’d have the tower as close as possible to avoid excessive coax runs.
Consider using hardline for the higher frequencies. A lot of times you can get excess coax from the local cable companies... For a small nuisance fee, there willing to give you the excess cable from the end of the reel. And sometimes they’ll give it to you for free..... It’s 70 Ohm! But the low loss more than makes up for the slight impedance mismatch... I’ve been doing this for years now and never had any degradation of the hardline at all.
Robert Mitchum He said in another video it was basically because his wife said to... 😁
Mark Guess I missed Randy’s reason on the location...... I knew there had to be a logical reason why his tower was so far from the shack.
@@robertmitchum2972 Yes, I agree it is not what one would think would be the ideal location. It may have been in a comment on one of the other videos but I do recall him saying it had to do with how the house sits on the property, their view, and the guidance of his wife. ;-)
Why is it that so many people fail to use washers under bolt heads and nuts, especially when they need to move?????
Not sure why the love of 259 connectors when N-type are cheap and easy enough to use and perfor way better along with staying dry.
Had you considered using hard line for the underground run? Ken W8ASA
I thought it would be too hard to get it through the conduit.
Wont condensation become a problem inside the conduit leading to the feedline being under water?
Some think so. It was in the ground for about a year when I pulled the pull string through. It was dry.
@@K7AGE The string doesnt create heat though like coax will.
Studrert the ends of the cut coax then tape your pull string..... The ends should be 4-6" apart from one another.
Nice one Randy .Good videos Food for thought de G6JMX 73
Wouldn't it have been easier to put the conduit in in short sections, so you only had to pull it through the first section, all the rest you could just slide over the cables and glue the joints. Then put the conduit into the trench and back fill it.
Maybe if I was ready when the guys were putting in the conduit. Pulling video soon.
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