These images are of a Tower that i brought off of Ebay, it was only the top 20 foot section and had to be modified for use
These images show how my freind Mick(M6MDR) and I did it.
All fabrication’s were done by Springfeild Pressing’s of Leicester, And my thank’s go to them for there fantastic work… Thank you
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- The Main Mounting with it’s 25mm clearance hole’s drilled in it to allow the access for the socket to tighten the rawlbolts.
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- The Main Mounting showing the 8mm clearance hole’s for the rawlbolts.
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- Here is the main hinge plate that we had fabricated to fit on the tower.
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- Here it is again with the two 12mm bolt hole’s in it to allow it to be bolted in postion ready for welding on the tower.
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- The Hole dug out for the The Main Mounting
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- A picture of the tower itself.
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- Mick (M6MDR) Trying to remove the Drill bit that he manged to get stuck in the hole lol mick
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- The Main Mounting and the Tower hinged in place.
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- A closer shot of the mounting.
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- Another view of the fitted Tower.
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- The Top section of the tower waiting to be fitted.
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- The Tower Spacer’s ready to Fit.
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- The Tower base concreated in place.
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- A Picture of the winch attached to the the Tower.
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- Me (G4ZTD) Himself lol on the roof.
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- Just Another Shot of me on the roof lol.
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- Testing that the tower lift’s ok.
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- Another view of the base concreated in place.
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- Another view of the tower being lifted.
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- Out Comes the Welder, Kindly loaned to me by My Freind Tony (M3PYG), Thanks Tony.
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- The Tower Vertical, Note the Brackets (Arrowed) Securing the Tower to the Wall.
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- Setting the Welder Up.
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- Cleaning the Area to be Welded.
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- Welding in Progress.
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- Umm Who Could This Be!…Ha I Know, Its GNOME-VADER.
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- Mick (M6MDR) Getting ready to have a go at Welding.
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- Here he is (M6MDR) Welding.
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- Mick Again stll at it. .
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- My Grandaughters Dad (Nick) Helping to paint the Tower.
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- Another Picture of Nick.
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- Picture showing a close up of the Spacer Clamps.
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- This is the Top Spacer Clamp. .
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- This is the Bottom Spacer Clamp.
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- Looking Up The Tower before painting.
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- On my way up the Tower.
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- Nearing the Top.
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- Again near the Top.
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- Nearing the Top with the paint tin in hand.
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- Near the Top and Thinking lol.
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- Painting the Top Section (Rotator cage).
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- Painting the very top of the Cage.
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- Another picture of me painting the cage.
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- Umm ???????.
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- Hand’s off at the Top Wow its a long way Down, Hope the fixings hold!.
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- Another picture of me painting the cage.
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- Its in the Air At Last, The finished Job, With the HF Steerable Trapped Dipole and VHF 7 Element ZL Specail on Board
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- More Picture’s of The finished Job.
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- More Picture’s of The finished Job.
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- More Picture’s of The finished Job.
Tests Performed on Completion
After Completing the Antenna system so far I Eagerly Connected The HF Steerable Dipole to the Radio (Kenwood TS-940s) and had a quick tune round.
In the Half Hour or so that I Tested it I Heard : JA1EIA, VK3OM and VE3YJ, All at 57 to 59 Signals; I did try calling the JA and VK but there was quite a pile up, so I had no joy.I then called VE3YJ who was using a 1000watt’s into a far better Antenna system (LOL) and he came straight back to me and we had quite a nice QSO, My report was 55 and I gave him 59, but when you consider the Antenna and Power Difference I was really pleased. Power i was using was only 100watt’s