30 Foot / 9 meter Antenna Mast on the Cheap (074a)

Описание: In this video I will walk though how to build a 30 ft / 9 m antenna support for yourself using simple lumberyard lumber and hardware. I will also show you the modifications I made for my own version that I used at Moose Lake.

Not everyone has a place to support one or both ends of a wire antenna.
This problem is not foreign to the amateur radio operator. Back in the long past, they devised a way of creating their own 30 foot or 9 meter support using basic stuff from the lumberyard. It was 40 foot (12 meter) back then when they could get 22 foot lumber!
I found this design in a 1940 American Radio Relay League (A.R.R.L.) "The Radio Amateur's Handbook." It is what I used as a starting place to create the antenna mast I used in Moose Lake, Manitoba, Canada when I lived there back in the 1990s.
I made some modifications for my own application and it worked great.

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Time Markers for Your Convenience
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00:05 Introductory Comments
01:24 The Design: Its Origins
03:10 The Original Design
04:05 Step#1: Lay out the lumber
04:14 Step#2: Bolt then together
05:03 Step#3: Splay out the legs
05:12 Step#4: Secure the legs in place at the bottom
05:51 Step#5: Add three more cross braces
06:16 Installation
06:22 The Guy Wires
07:22 Locations
07:27 Set#1: Midpoint
07:35 Set#2: Top
07:57 Lengths
09:00 The Pulley & Rope/Cord
09:59 Establish a level foundation
10:19 Base stakes for installation
10:33 Guy Wire Anchors
11:03 Putting the Mast up and into place
11:24 Final mast leveling
11:57 Modifications at Moose Lake, Manitoba, Canada
13:10 Final comments and tootle-oots