[Clegg] Tower Installation

[Doug Fitts W7FDF]

My last posting for 2005 with a question:

My home owners association with their CC&R's and other regs [here in my 
community of Vail, Arizona] has "seen the light" regarding new FCC 
legislation on antenna and tower installation parameters and height 
restrictions. They [the association] recently sent me a monthly 
Newsletter [December issue] which specifically acknowledges word for 
word, that the "Federal Communications Commission [FCC] passed 
legislation that prohibits associations from restricting individual 
members from receiving adequate transmission signals".

Yes, I did after reading this fired off an email to the manager of the 
association [this morning] asking that they send me what is called an 
Architectural Improvement form so I can submit my "project"...to install 
a 30 foot Rohn tower for my 900 mhz antenna system and other antennas 
related to repeater/remotebase and other link systems [a.k.a, antenna 
farm on a tower].

My question on a typical tower installation and please keep in mind...I 
have no experience in this area other then as a "helper" with other 
installations years ago.

Can someone direct me to a website or specifically explain how best to 
"lay the foundation" to install a 30 foot Rohn tower without guy wires. 
Yes, I plan, once I purchase the tower sections [working on that with a 
local Ham] to secure the second bottom section to the eave of the house. 
In short, I think I want to sink/install the first five foot section of 
the tower into the ground, use rebar for added support and firmness, 
pour cement to "fill the hole" at the base of a five foot section of the 
tower, then secure the upper section to the eave of the house with steel 
brackets [that I may have to have formed and bent to the right config].

I am new at this so any and all suggestions on/from this list would be 
appreciated so very much. This will be my new 900 mhz repeater and 
remotebase project for 2006!!  The wife and I have been living in our 
new home now 15 months and I really desire to install a quality antenna 
system for the three repeaters I currently operate and maintain.

So please comment/send thoughts and suggestions on your own experiences 
with tower installatons. I am looking forward to "getting my hands 
dirty", digging the hole for the tower and rebar and pouring the 
cement...and at age 62, I NEED the exercise!!

Best 73 and **Happy Holidays**

Doug Fitts W7FDF
Vail, Arizona U.S.A.
Cienega Radio Network
927.8500/R
449.925/R
448.250/R
IRLP node 3850
Echolink 47474