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Here is my AB/1386 kind of for reference. It's been suggested I mount this either to a trailer or a vehicle - there were brackets for that to put it on a HMMWV and think I have seen it on the side of a S-280 also. Either way, just a bit short (33' total) and marginal weight-wise for a beam...
I've seen some of those masts come up - often from civilian satellite trucks, WilBurt seemed to make a lot of them - but they are all too short for what I am looking for. I like the concept a lot though. My understanding is they did make tall ones - 40+ feet - but I've never seen one come up for...
I didn't have the impression the light trailer masts went up very high, but I see in the thread it mentions 37 feet... That's a little less than I had in mind but is serviceable...
-edit easier/cheaper to acquire hens teeth apparently.
So funny enough I went to buy a US Tower TMM-541SS this morning and imagine my surprise when HRO quoted me $8900! When I looked at them not 2 years ago they were like $2900. The rumor on eham/etc is that US Tower is now a big military / GSA supplier and so they jacked everything up to Uncle...
I had the same thought about N6NB's trailer, why doesn't it fall over. To his credit he's been making these trailers for a long time now, and has made quite a few of them. My guess is that he simply doesn't use it unguyed in bad weather. My feeling with the M105 is its weight, and I can add some...
So for a couple of years now I've had it in the back of my head to build an antenna trailer. The goal here is to have a trailer I can tow out wherever, crank up a ~40 foot mast, and be operating on HAM without too much fuss. I have all manner of manual crank up field masts and things, but they...
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