[450] Vertical

[David McKenzie]

Connecticut winter started about an hour ago when it started snowing. It's
currently 35 and light snow on my hill.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Rich <t41 at optonline.net> wrote:

>  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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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Vinnie Grosso <Vinnie at vinnievision.com>
> *To:* 144.450 Mailing List <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
> *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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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David McKenzie <kb1fsy at vhfwiki.com>
> *To:* 144.450 Mailing List <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
> *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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