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My suggestion would be the following:
Cut that buried 1" pipe about a foot over the ground, to serve as a ground support for your new antenna. Get a heavier steel pipe (ca 1"3/4 - 2") that will fit over the 1" pipe, and perhaps 10 foot long. Get a cheap fiberglass (not carbon) fishing rod ca 18 feet long, (1/4 wave on 20m) Tape a 1/4 wire radiator to the fishing rod, and feed with coax at bottom of rod. Attach fishing rod securely to the top of your new mast pipe. Rise the pipe and fishing rod assembly vertically and guy at the point where the fishing rod is attached. Now you can run elevated wire radials along the guy ropes, and you should probably also ground the coax shield to the mast pipe at the feed point. Enjoy! 73 de Hans, SM3PXG wrote: Ground system: 5 foot of 1 inch diameter galvanized iron pipe, halfway stuck in ground with concrete. 9 foot carbon fiber fishing rod, handle epoxied and inserted into pipe a wire is attached to copper pipe and run up to end of rod. Hot end of coax connected to bottom of copper pipe Rope guys are econnected to the top part of the shaft coupler, as the middle of the shaft coupler is predicted to be weakest point. Sigh, The Eternal Squire |
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