Portable Antenna Tower |
Pull this trailer antenna, Makes a great field day tower |
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 Pete that's my dad( KC7IQQ ).. built a really cool portable antenna tower for a fellow ham named Pat Ahern ( KC7FVO ) Pat came to dad cuz dad has a welding shop and asked if he could build a plate with some stakes he could attach a tower too. Pete said if he brought an axel to him, he would build a trailer for him so that he could tow it to remote areas to test possible places to put a repeater and also would make a great field day rig.
Tower side view |
Pat went and got an axel out of an old van and took it to Pete. Now a little about the trailer. Its made out of 3 inch channel Iron complete with outrigger. the outriggers slide in and out of the sides of the trailer. the antenna is attached, a little below the center so that it hinges there ( this makes it easy to fold over and attach an antenna to it) it has a cable and crank attached to the base of the antenna to make it easy to lay over on its side |
The tower is 30'
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 Guess how the story goes, is that pat climbed up the antenna and tried to tip it over.. dad said in never budged.. not sure what pats plans are for this portable antenna, but it sure looks like a lot of fun. |
Tower Extended |
