Tower sections lying on ground.
base installed.
another view of base.
Now here comes the fun part. The jin "pole" in this case is a piece of wood. Rope is tied to tower section, tower section is pulled up and dropped into position.
fewer sections on ground, more on tower.
Greg tying first section
Putting jin pole up the tower for second section.
He keeps going up and up. That power line looks deceptively close. Its actually a fair bit away.
Heres a comparative shot of satellite tower, old mast for HF on chimney. you can see the "appliance" satellite tv dish. (starchoice)
I wanted to get a shot of the pair of towers. Pretty hard to get far enough back in the yard, and the foilage in the back of the yard shows up.
A fairly clear shot of midway through the installation. Hf tower is now higher than the sat tower.
That poor alpha-delta sloper is way too low. I meant to ask Greg to move it up the satellite tower a bit.
So this is everything up. rotator bearings and supports. Not sure just what I will put up there. I am thinking 6m, 222mhz, 2m, and a small tribander for HF. Though, I would not mind the WARC bands too. We'll see. 222mhz and 2m might just be FM for now i.e. copper pipe antennas mounted off the side of the tower.
A view further back in the yard.
A view of both towers together.
Another view.
Heres a view from the front of the house. You can see the satellite tower on the left, though its hidden in the trees a bit.
Another view, a bit better view.