[450] Antenna work...

[Rich Florio]

Was up on the old roof earlier. I managed to bend the mast pipe back to a
relatively straight position, as you can see from the before and after pics
below. I have a new piece of pipe ready to install, but it will have to
wait till spring as it requires taking down the stack and that requires at
least two people. Hopefully we don't get any more crazy storms.... :-0

It's purely speculation, but I think the way the lower pipe bends is
actually helpful. You'd rather have that take the strain and bend then
the upper mast snap. Before Sandy, I used the cheaper TV Type mast for the
lower portion, and that snapped. Of course it was a good 15 or 20 years old.

But the way things are since Sandy appears to work better...

W2TMA


Before...
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and After.

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