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Antennas for the base are all
mounted on a U.S. Towers TX-455
crank-up tower (55') with a Yaesu G-1000DXA Rotor. From
the top of the tower moving upwards (in the picture below left), I
run
a Cushcraft A50-5S
yagi
for 6 Meters, then a
a copy of K5OE's Texas Potato Masher using
an M2 EB-144 and an EB-432 mounted on a PVC
pipe stacking boom at a right angle to the yagis, then my howitzer
- a 10 element Bencher
Skyhawk Tri-band yagi. At the top, there's a Diamond X-500
for the VHF/UHF FM
duties. Mounted off the side of the
tower at about 30' and strung to three other supports, is a 280' Loop Skywire for 40, 80 and
160 meters. I'm working on getting a 1.2 Ghz yagi up there
somehow... the IC-910 has the 23cm Module installed, so why not use
it, right? Check out the
pictures of the tower/antenna construction below. |
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Bottom to top - 6M,
Potato masher, Skyhawk and X-500. |
A Worms-eye view... |
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