How the heck did those TV crews of yesteryear erect 40+ foot
telescoping antenna masts sitting atop pointed roofs? Its not
exactly like you can set up a step ladder on such a roof to
get up the first 10 foot to pull up the rest of the sections.
Also setting the guys correctly is nothing to sneeze at I am
finding out. Maybe they worked it from the top section
down...of course.....! Pluse they already knew from previous
experience with standard hardware how long to make the
guys....I beginning to see the light....not that I can use
that technique.

At the moment I am still recovering from the stress of a yet
unfinished mast erecting project and when I calm down or when
I am out of deep water so to speak, I will tell you the rest
of the story of untangling the pre-strung guys and ropes etc.
It is one of those crazy situations where you yourself are
the only accountable engineer, everyone thinks your crazy,
and you dare not tell anyone what you were thinking because
they would just tell you that you must be nuts.

Mostly I better keep this project to myself until I am either
out of the hot water or I abort it. Please wish me luck since
I am a fellow antenna dream farmer gone of the deep end it
seeems.......


BTW, I am not trying to do this atop such a pointed roof, and
it still is quite challenging. One is almost up leaning on
on end of a barn, another will be free standing out in the
field, another will be tied onto a 20 foot "telephone pole"
set in another part of the field (hoping to get an additional
24' or so. Plus two more I won's even go into..


then, I heard that sky wire loops are nothing all that great
anyway......

talk about taking the wind out of one's sails when one is in
the middle of an engineering crises....its all the fun of
AMATEUR radio......amateur with its root meaning "to
love"....



Bill K6TAJ