[Elecraft] Mast question

[Neil Martinsen-Burrell]

Fiberglass poles such as those from Spiderbeam or Max-Gain Systems (
mgs4u.com) won't support very much load without guys which your wife
disallowed (completely?). If you just want to support your G5RV above the
level of your roof, then you could use two roof tripods like those used for
TV antennas. Just put two 5-foot lengths of TV mast in each one and you'll
be more than 25 feet above the ground and 10 feet clear of
the roof.

If you are an inveterate scrounger, you could almost certainly get these
from the roofs of people who no longer use OTA TV antennas.  When I drive
around here, there are lots of TV antennas in states of disrepair that I'm
sure the homeowners would be glad to get rid of.

If you don't want to bolt through the roof, you could use bracketed wooden
masts on each end of the house. You could also consider going to a longer
open-wire fed doublet with the center over your roof, supported by the two
roof towers, then extending off the house to a high attachment point on
each end (you could use an eight foot T-post). With a tuner, you should be
able to work all bands 80-6 once the total length of the antenna gets up
around 90 feet (and it doesn't have to run in a straight line).


-Neil N0FN

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Mel Farrer via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Look into the Spiderbeam fiberglass poles.  Quite sturdy and all kinds of
> lengths.  Well within your budget.
> Mel, K6KBE
>
>
>       From: George Dubovsky <n4ua.va at gmail.com>
>  To: Reuben Popp <reuben.popp at gmail.com>
> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>  Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 7:19 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Mast question
>
> I would look for 3 used sections of Rohn 25, then figure out how to safely
> bracket it to your house, if possible. That should be do-able for somewhere
> close to your budget and certainly capable of holding up a G5RV.
>
> 73,
>
> geo - n4ua
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Reuben Popp <reuben.popp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone, more of a beginner question here and not [directly]
> Elecraft
> > related.
> >
> > I have a K2 I built some time ago that I paired with a half size g5rv.
> At
> > the time, I was living with a buddy whose house design allowed me to set
> > that antenna up as a sloper (and it worked quite well).  That said, some
> > years have passed, I'm married now and the house I live in now is much
> > smaller.  I have the antenna still, but it's merely laid along the vertex
> > of the roof.  Reception is so-so, but I know it could be much better.
> So,
> > what can I use for a reliable mast that would be left up all the time?
> >
> > There's no trees in the lot. The house itself is a single level house on
> a
> > slab (no basement). and from end to end it's _maybe_ all of 40'.  The
> > distance from the ground to the vertex is maybe all of 16 feet (or there
> > abouts).
> >
> > The XYL said she doesn't want guy wires all over and a rohn style tower
> is
> > out of my budget.  I'm looking for suggestions that's preferably < $300,
> if
> > possible.  The locale is mid-east Missouri, about an hour outside St.
> > Louis; storms come and go but it's not like I'm in tornado country (if
> that
> > helps any).
> >
> > So, what do folks recommend?
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