[Antennas] Mast Mount for Mag Mount

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:33:23 -0800 (PST)

Easier than that!!!  Purchase a 90 degree steel bracket
from the local hardware store for under a dollar, a
hose clamp for less than fifty cents and strap the
bracket to the top of the mast!  Quick!  Inexpensive!! 
Need CHEAP masting?? 1.5" to 2" EMT, usually under
seven bucks in 10' lengths, and two to three times
thicker than "antenna mast" materials sold at rat shack
and home improvemnet centers.  Not long enough!?!?! 
20' of 2" chainlink fence toprail is even stronger and
still costs less than $10!  It's even swedged at the
top so you can stack them!  I use a couple 20' pieces
with a couple hundred feet of 1/8" galvanized cable for
a portable longwire for Field Day.

Kurt

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, [email protected] wrote:

> 
> Hmmmm, take a piece of steel (make sure it IS steel),
> bend it 90deg,
> drill holes for U bolts and mount it to a mast......
> (unless you can buy the thing cheaper, why not make it
> yourself??)
> 
> Chris
> WB5ITT
> 
> W1DFU Bert wrote:
> > 
> > Somewhere in my travels ( Dayton I think ) I saw a
> metal plate of sorts that was mounted on a mast to
> facilitate a mag mount antenna. The fellow that had it
> said it was available commercially. I have since lost
> the info he gave me and I'm wondering if anyone might
> know a source for one of these.
> > 
> > Thanks and 73,
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