[450] Vertical

[Rich]

Believe it or not Vin, the new vertical M2-9 (which Bill KC1WJ was nice enough to give me!) is mounted on a 5' piece of fiberglass that came off the bottom section of a broken tree pruner/saw thingy! ( I used fiberglass so as not to de-tune the 6 Meter too much.) The main steel mast is heavy-duty TV masting which you cant find anymore. Bottom section below the rotor is about 4' and the top section with all the gear on it is 12'. I got them at a garage sale a few years back. Set me back a whole dollar! 

Now we'll see if it makes it through another Long Island Winter!

W2TMA


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  From: Vinnie Grosso 
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  Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [450] Vertical


  Rich,

  It's really great !!
  What kind of mast do you use. I tried this once and the wind bent it, now I did use crap from RS.

  Vinnie

  Rich wrote: 
    Well there it is...not very high but the best I could do for now. I may just take it down and wait till the spring, because I am seriously overloading things as it is. I was able to get the 440 vertical and the 6 meter beam up about a foot or so higher, so thats good.

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      From: David McKenzie 
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      Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:01 PM
      Subject: [450] Woody


      Why aren't you on the radio? You're coming to the last good hamfest of the season right?

      Right?

      -Dave



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