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Title: Suggestion--Inexpensive tower masts and hardware Post by: Bill, KD0HG on June 27, 2006, 01:52:34 PM I am installing a large TV antenna at the top of my Rohn 45-G tower and I was looking for a short AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
mast to install at the top to support it. I found everything I needed at my local Home Depot. They carry 10' long sections of 1-3/8" galvanized pipe for supporting cyclone fence, and heavy galvanized clamps to bolt parallel sections of this pipe together. The clamps fit perfectly on Rohn 25-G and 45-G tower legs and seem super strong. I used four of them to bolt the vertical mast to the top section of tower. It ain't going anywhere. For light duty antenna supports, this fencing hardware can't be beat. The galvanized pipe is also available in larger sizes and it's even swaged at one end so one section can telescope into another. Way better material than the junk TeeVee antenna hardware that Radio Shack sells. .. |