Skeeter427's Maco stacked 4 element beams 55' high shootin skip, just raised it another 10.5 feet and it gets out.044Dave camera operator and 467 Operator Ron helping me out.
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@terryshrives83224 жыл бұрын
Ok? I thought you were going to show how you did this. Thanks for wasting my time there guy!
@localguy98167 жыл бұрын
An explanation ahead of time, with a full scan of the setup (footings, tower base, cable connection, pulling method) would have been nice. Explaining the 3-point, hinged base, size of the footing, etc., would also have been nice.
@terryglenweaver4 жыл бұрын
*Local Guy* --- Yeah, wot u sed.
@eefjuh5533 Жыл бұрын
Pie and coffee would be nice.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
Hookers and a big pile of coke would also be nice. For the after party.
@ericzerkle84863 ай бұрын
@@eefjuh5533A stuffed bong would be nice too! 😂
@eefjuh55333 ай бұрын
@@ericzerkle8486 😂😂
@kerbygator8 жыл бұрын
Why put the rotor up so high though? I had a 72 footer with a single Maco five element vertical beam, but I mounted my rotor just two feet off the ground in case there was any trouble. I could repair or adjust it without the hassle of lowering it. I just used a thrust bearing and ran the mast pole all the way down the center of the tower.
@tooneboone38696 жыл бұрын
I put up a 200ft. rohn 25 tower with a super lazer 500 cb ant in 1976 and boy did it get out quite a distance. The ant boom was 3" dia. and 40 ft. long with 8 elements vertical and 8 elements horizontal. I took the ant down and sold it but still have the tower.
@ericzerkle84863 ай бұрын
I have the brother to it, the super laser 400 that's mint in the box, never put together.
@rickerdman57724 жыл бұрын
sweet awesome.. 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back thank you
@sleeve86513 жыл бұрын
This installation is wrought with questions ? 😱
@miguelsalami4 жыл бұрын
WoWie Stacked 4s on a Big A$$ Tower👍Nice Foundation👍 "That's How You Do It"❗🇺🇸
@peterrasmussen75454 жыл бұрын
Never have i seen such a bad video before 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@steveevans49328 жыл бұрын
excuse me guys i forgot to hook up the rotor wire, lets bring it back down
@bebo55584 жыл бұрын
Steve Evan's. Yeah, at least they could have taped the rotor to the tower!
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
No problem. This was just a practice run.
@WelshWidgetMan2O1O10 жыл бұрын
That's a hell of a set up. Can only imagine the forward gain on that thing :)
@williammacdonald70846 жыл бұрын
Stacked 4 elements would give you around 11db gain
@1OFGODSOWN6 жыл бұрын
3 db more than a single beam & a much tighter signal & a better F/B ratio as well.
@randysandstrom95346 жыл бұрын
Plus 10kw ( modulator ) 😆 😂
@patricklandis39103 жыл бұрын
Ok what did you do actually? ( HOW STEP BY STEP ) then post your video . So you showed us raising it . This would be the end result of step by step.
@jeremyornelas2113 Жыл бұрын
So just film it with a camera and it will start to rise on it's own. Got it.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
No! Don't be silly! The camera has nothing to do with it. It's simple really. Just give the tower some Viagra.
@Supbillion7 жыл бұрын
Now you can go inside and do some ratchet-jawin'!
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
Rubber lippin'.
@elmo123smiley8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, let's just wait until there's a nice little electrical storm developing overhead and take the chance that, while hearing thunder in the 'hood, we don't all get the p!ss knocked out of us while putting this huge lightning rod in the air.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
You're missing the point. The wind was blowing in the proper direction to help push the tower up.
@hillbillybassfisherman81816 жыл бұрын
I had one of these back in the day I still have all cb stuff boosters I use to talk around the world an the neibors use to call me say I cant watch tv I say I be done quick talking to japan lmao
@hillbillybassfisherman81816 жыл бұрын
this awesome brings back a lot memories
@westview48843 жыл бұрын
i remember my dad back in the 70s earlt 80s. doing this. all those q cards being sent to him. Im looking to get back into it. do you care to sell some of the old gear sir?
@fschnittke2 жыл бұрын
I must have missed the part how you raised it?
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
He used the "St. Nick" method. "And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose"
@samsneed71725 жыл бұрын
Good job boys, super-cool set-up
@bkdexter793 жыл бұрын
I won't rate a video from 8 years ago, but it was crap. Wanted to see your winch mechanism...?
@thebrain42392 жыл бұрын
Even with the sky needle type tower the weight of the two Yagi's and rotor that tower should have at least 1 to 2 sets of guyed wires.Dont now what part of the country there in but one bad storm and that tower is History 🙁
@1OFGODSOWN5 жыл бұрын
Stacking antennas gives 3db of gain over a single beam but it makes the beam width much narrower. I know many will read that and have no idea what it means but research will do them good.
@patrickkelly7258 Жыл бұрын
Another vid where actual erection of a tower IS NOT SHOWN. Watching the tower go up does NT show HOW it's erected. WITH a tow truck...let's SEE the tow truck. FAIL
@jazz4asahel2 жыл бұрын
Anyone who doesn't support gun control hasn't been pheasant hunting with Liz Cheney's dad.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
Big Dick Cheney?
@sverrejr.88806 жыл бұрын
Nice Video and a great tower hope the condition will be great for you guys what ever band you working 73s from Norway
@ianmcewan56489 жыл бұрын
Love the antenna array, what's the stacking distance, looks about 12, 15 feet. I would have put them on the flat side and stack them somewhere around 28 foot mark it would give you more gain plus the flat side helps gain a bit too, 73 man.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
He probably wants to use it for local work too.
@shawnhayden66747 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. I love the end method! Did the installation get guy wires to hold it and how so?
@patricklandis39103 жыл бұрын
What was the method? Nothing to see how it was done....
@terryglenweaver4 жыл бұрын
U dent sho how you did it all I scene waz tower risin' -- wasted my tyme. How tal iz it?
@ericzerkle84863 ай бұрын
I lost IQ points trying to read your drivel. 😮
@tf72743 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for the people who can't figure this out. Nice setup. Although I can't imagine would still be up in my part of the world. I had 150% more metal in my tower and 400% less antenna than this and it still bent in half during a storm.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
This is a quality American made tower. Made with high quality steel.
@Toby7308210 жыл бұрын
Very nice! I'm thinking of putting up stacked 5's. How well do they tune and well do they tune? Do you get into your neighbors electronics or is the setup pretty friendly? Thanks and 73's
@jasoncain59303 жыл бұрын
Lol I will be posting my 12 element with 85 ft boom ness crane 🏗 holding it 100acres of hood talking monster beam check itnout
@josafatrodriguezsanchez19585 жыл бұрын
it looks beautyfull .up there .wow..
@tomohawkravenmoon45186 жыл бұрын
should cut those trees back, you gotta do repairs sooner or later, save the hassle of breaking yer beams.
@UnpleasantChuck3 жыл бұрын
I normally don't waste my time writing insulting comments for lame videos, but I'm willing to make an exception, given that you've already wasted 4:43 of it. Deceptive title, to say the least.
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
Well that was an unpleasant comment! Oh, I see now. Nevermind.
@BillyBob-nq8cc9 жыл бұрын
Tower Great, Install Great, Polarization Wrong, Gain Lost Much!!!
@thingtwo10337 жыл бұрын
hardly anyone uses the flat side on 11 meter, you wouldnt hear shit
@williammacdonald70846 жыл бұрын
Not correct only 20db loss on local stations bu more gain on distant skip stations ....do your sums with that system your would go horizontal to talk distance and gain 20db which is a 100 times
@1OFGODSOWN6 жыл бұрын
When skip is rolling the signals change polarity it does not matter but if they were horizontal it kills the local mobile signals & those using vertical base antennas.Being vertical makes much more sense on 11 meters.
@kerryowen89844 жыл бұрын
They aren't stacked they are side by side 4 element beams set vertically 😂 Really waste all u need is 1 🤔 why 2 ?
@wwtf71803 жыл бұрын
3db more gain.
@roynorman3650 Жыл бұрын
How do you calculate how much load on raising cable?
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
Just pull till she breaks.
@larrymbs6 жыл бұрын
that showed nothing
@drumminsonlive91993 жыл бұрын
Should have turned them flat side and he could have ruled the world from that height...
@markemetcalf8 жыл бұрын
You didn't show HOW you raised it. Pitiful video.
@moonlitphantasm7 жыл бұрын
MauriatOttolinkyou read my mind. All this effort for......CB? Are you kidding! I'm not knocking CB. But for such little you can do on CB, why invest that much money? But hey...to each their own.
@1OFGODSOWN6 жыл бұрын
Many of us do many different bands.I have (10) antennas up & I can use all of the Ham Bands (HF,UHF,VHF),CB,& even MURS. Radio is a hobby & some of us use all of the bands that we can.You do your hobbies & we will do ours.Radio is just one of my many.
@garymiddleton6585 жыл бұрын
they used a tow truck if you watched the whole thing
@barryinn17782 жыл бұрын
waste of time , I also thought by his title he would show how it was raised .
@williammacdonald70846 жыл бұрын
Why phase them together vertical polarized instead of horizontal polarized for skip as you lose around 20db from horizontal polarized antennas
@1OFGODSOWN6 жыл бұрын
On skip you lose nothing since the bouncing off of the ionosphere changes the polarity many times.Locally this works best for working base & mobile stations without that loss being horizontal.Mounting them any way other than vertical would have been pure stupidity.Some people read to much BS on the internet & don't really have a clue how signals work. LOL Bet you had no idea that everyone does NOT care about talking skip on 11 meters? bet it never crossed your mind. LOL {:>)
@carltope99496 жыл бұрын
you don't lose anything horizontal, if the guy on the other end is horizontal. Ran Wilson lasers for over 12yrs from 76 to around 1990 and 70%of the time horiz was better than vertical for DX
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
I find a horizontal yagi to be much quieter. If I want to talk to mobiles, I use the vertical Antron.
@georgeak4bi8 жыл бұрын
Watch till the end he used a tow truck winch
@DynoDieselWagon2 жыл бұрын
Nobody owns impact drivers ???
@garryedens33473 жыл бұрын
obviously he used a heavy duty winch to raise it. i seen the cable
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
*saw
@CliffFoxKU4GW8 жыл бұрын
Was curious if you guyed the tower or if it is a freestanding that has large enough hunk of concrete in the ground that it doesn't need them? Great video! Hope you'll get you a climbing harness in case you do ever have to work on the rotor. I lost a ham radio friend 2 years ago on May 14, 2014, N4JA Jim Abercrombie, due to a tower accident. He fell from 80 feet up! A climbing harness may have saved his life. He had been a ham since the 1950s. I don't think he should have been up on it to begin with. 76 year old men don't need to be climbing towers! www.arrl.org/news/arrl-volunteer-dxer-james-h-jim-abercrombie-jr-n4ja-sk
@dewainejeske70133 жыл бұрын
Tip over towers are very weak... Antennas look good though...
@Toby7308210 жыл бұрын
Stacked 5's I meant!
@robertheintz80177 жыл бұрын
Why do Ham and CB guys have yards that look like a garbage dump?
@seeharvester Жыл бұрын
Cause they waste all their time talking on the radio.
@donzielinski70527 жыл бұрын
Show us yer leenyer!
@FreemanWithrow5 жыл бұрын
Well that was a waste of my time
@marcelbenhur62304 жыл бұрын
😳?? Polarisation verticale ? Pour le dx c’est pas terrible. Pourquoi en polarisation verticale ?
@varoujan788 жыл бұрын
You call this the easy way?
@ianmcewan56489 жыл бұрын
I would stack them one above the other.
@thingtwo10337 жыл бұрын
hardly anybody uses the flat side on 11meter, you wouldnt hear anything
@1OFGODSOWN6 жыл бұрын
Plenty of people use the flat side but it kills the local signals & the mobiles as well.If skip is rolling the signals change polarity many times.Much better off using them stack vertically.