Back in Jan 2012, I ordered a Mosley 11 element beam.  They said it would take 8-10 weeks.  It came in 3 weeks later.  I picked a nice weekend and assembled it on some shorty sawhorses on the ground.  Ran a coax inside the house to see what it would hear.  SWR looked good and I proceeded to work a couple ATNO DXCC's using "ground wave", I guess.  Put it on a mast and dropped the mast through my 6' step ladder.  Worked a bunch of new suff with it pointed South.  It was a few weeks later before I could get a boom truck scheduled to get my old stuff down and this new monster up.  SWR didn't change all that much from 0' to 32'.  But I did have a rotator now.