Ham Radio Repeater Relocation Project #2 - Erecting the Tower 

WOW, I was just watching a 70-year-old and his wife putting up a 50 freestanding tower with a small yard tractor. buzzsah. He would have loved this trailer. lol

Climbing up there manhandling that antenna without wearing a harness or any other PPE. Absolute stupidity…

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Safety first on this video! Nice fall arrest gear!

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seems you need to add proper grounding as an additional protection there.

nice content.. subbed. that is some amazing portable mast u have over there. that bended antenna is that a 3band antenna? what type is it? 73

I like the setup. Hustler G7 lighting rod at the top works well ( I put my G7 at the top of the tower too- I was lucky!) what are the repeater specs? Freq? Etc.

I hope you invest in a climbing harness at some point.

I hooked up a led acid weel chair battery to my ups.

LMR coax will cause duplex noise, because the shield is made of dis-similar metals. Some of my friends that are professional radio guys tell me that LMR that’s made for direct burial will work better for duplex operation.

Good luck on the duplex noise, maybe a big problem with the tower sections and guy wires not bonded. Keep the power down if u have to.

Why dont you put the antenna on before you putting the Tower vertical up?

So what did you have to do to eliminate the crackling noise ? i am working on a repearer myself, and am struggling with a few problems

The weak link in the rigging are the quick links at the ground anchors. ☠️ They will fail well below a rated shackle, please omit the quick links!

Is there any requirements to have a blinking light at the top?

Pretty cool. How much does a set-up like this might cost?

Nice setup i can hear you from my place im at grant

7:27 The air conditioner draws air out of the cabinet already. That's where the air comes from that it blows back in.

Was getting a bit uneasy watching you work at height without safety gear. Noted a number of safety violations. You were lucky--but you might not be next time! Take care of yourselves!

whats your Zello's name??? awesome job with thte Tower Mount brother.

If you left that in the UK it would be on the classifieds within 24hrs

Crazy question. So I take it that you own that land? I see there's a power meter on the pole

Wouldnt that need an aircraft warning light?

Those "carrbiners" are called mailons

Thems is called "quick links." (or French links to dullards) If you are up on a mountain top, why is the tower over ten feet tall? If you are only serving one valley consider mechanical beam tilt. If you intend to serve omniduirectionally consider a lower gain antenna or an antenna with electrical beam tilt. Ron W4BIN

What is the minimum safe distance from a power line to allow when installing an antenna? Enough so that if the antenna falls, no part of it can come closer than 10 feet to the power wires!

"Suck the hot air out of the box." Uhhhhhhh... You do realize a window air conditioning unit recirculates the air in the room (enclosure in this case). If you add fans to blow or suck air into the enclosure the AC unit just has to work harder. There are two coils in a AC unit, condenser and evaporator. One lives in the outside environment and the other the inside environment. Do you add holes to your house to circulate air from the outside to the inside to help the AC, probably not. If you did I wouldn't want to pay your electric bill. And for the love of God man, get a climbing harness. Had a friend that died when he fell off a tower at about 18 feet. Climbing harness's are cheap, lives are not.

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