Awesome setup. Great work.

Used your installation as a model for my R9 install. Works great! Thanks for putting this video up, Wayne! 73!!

The problem with the concrete fed grounding rod, is that a lightning strike will destroy your foundation because of water and humidity in the concrete. Use a separate grounding rod. You should also seal the end of your co-ax conduit. It will gather rain and destroy your feed line. Great design and video!

Thank you for showing us your antenna. I hope you have much enjoyment with your radio broadcasting. It's something I've always wanted to do since I was a child, but so far I've not gotten to it. Greetings from South Africa. Jesus is Lord and has saved us from our sins through his death and resurrection.

Nice job thanks for sharing its given me a few ideas on how to install my antana system

Obviously you found an answer to the plug for the top of the antenna but I would like to suggest (depending on the diameter at the top) using a walking cane or crutch rubber tip. This looks like an excellent set up. Great job well done 👍 God bless and 73 from Canada 🇨🇦

Great video, thank you.

Fabulous design!

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Nice set up. I'm trying to decide between an R9 and a Hustler 5BTV.

Like the video but can barely hear half of it. Is there any way to fix the audio?

I saw in another vid to not do a grounding rod in concrete. Why? He said it would explode in the concrete if lightning hit it because of the moisture in the concrete. Just sharing. He did his in the ground next to the slab.

Great video! Adam W7MP

Looks Nice👍👍 Would a setup like this hold a Sirio SY27-4 ?

I will tell you that the ground rod shouldn’t be used as it stands and a New ground rod should be placed next to the pad. I have seen lightening ground thru a concrete based ground rod and the lightening itself blew apart the concrete into large chunks. Not to say how you have it won’t work, but should you get struck by a lightening storm it may cause more work in the end.

How well do you receive 80/75 M on this antenna? I’m looking at this antenna and the AV 680. I have read reviews that the 680 doesn’t have great 80M reception as well as some issues on 20M. I’m wondering if the R9’is the way to go...Michael KN4USB

Nice clean install. Professional job. Does your winch lower it also or will it only raise it? KD9NTD

what are the rails on top of the chain link fence? they look like rollers.

yes good job....but. ground rod must not be in the concrete. the hinge point of your poles, needs to be rebuilt. weld in a pipe for the bolt to go through. one long two short pipes. short go through the standing pipes the one welded to the tower goes through them.then bolt holds it all together. no washers needed. do not hook to a chain link fence if worse happens it will tear out the fence, and you should be using ss steel wire, and insulators at the antenna and were the wire gets to about 7-8 feet above ground level (shock thing). then fix to concrete plugs a good couple feet into the ground. think over kill here as nobody needs a friend turning into a court problem.

Remove winch handle when not using winch, more difficult for mischievous kids to try to lower.

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What diameter is your fence pipe?

Audio sounds as bad as the woodpecker on my frequency.

Audio too low

Poor audio on your video .not worth my time .