I imagine you could. Sounds like it would be a nice setup 😃

Thanks! If I recall correctly, it's about four feet square and four feet deep.

Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you found something useful in the video. Hope to see you on the bands 😃

You're not the first commenter to mistake it for a tilt-up tower, but it is not. Also, I enjoy climbing.

Nope, not a tilt-over. Good news is, I don't mind climbing 😉

Sounds like an interesting project! You should do a video on it 😀

I got it from Universal Towers.

Yeah, I love those Knipex. One set I bought myself and the other was a gift. A bit costly for sure, but very handy. A duplexer usually refers to a device like this for handling signals with relatively small bandwidth and relatively close spacing -- for example, two individual FM signals in the 2m amateur band. A diplexer usually refers to a device for handling relatively wide bandwidths (often an entire band or more) and relatively wide spacings -- for example, the entire 2m band and the entire 70cm band. Typical designs (in my limited experience) aren't directional. A duplexer is good for building a repeater while a diplexer might be good for attaching separate 2m and 70cm antennas to a dual-band radio. There are applications outside of amateur radio as well: I once used a pair of diplexers to send satellite television out from a distribution amp in an equipment room to a receiver in the lobby and FM broadcast band back from an antenna in the lobby to a tuner in the equipment room over the same run of coax -- the equipment room was steel on four sides so we didn't get good reception in there, but we wanted to listen to the radio.

Super handy! Thanks, Dino 😊 73

I agree, I'd love to have two cameras! Maybe more! 😂

😂 Take it easy on the up-hill drive; wait for the down-hill to give it all you've got 😉

Keep an eye peeled! I think the video about replacing the cable harness is live now and I've finished editing a video about tuning it. Hopefully more to come once I get a programming cable for these radios...

@@StuntProgrammer haha i saw that this morning. those were some nice cables you made. i thought i knew how to make rf cables until i saw your video and i was like i've been doing it all wrong :)

@@pratwurschtgulasch6662 Aw, thanks! I didn't know I was doing anything special; glad it was interesting!

@@StuntProgrammer I didn't know about tinning the inside of the pin or that you use the little hole to put solder in there. Probably pretty basic but glad I learned that from you.

@@pratwurschtgulasch6662 Oh, I didn't tin them -- just had to clean up the old solder since I was re-using the pins. The little hole is handy, though! Helps to have really fine solder to get in there 😀

Hey, Dino! The tower is doing great, even through a serious wind storm we had this past summer. I've added a 2m vertical at the top of the mast now ;) 73!

You know it!

Definitely the first guy on your block to see it!

That's a fact! 😀

Aw, thanks for saying so! It's all just movie magic; it was actually a bunch of work 😅

Awesome! Thanks for the kind words 😊

Interesting! A different type of pin I've bought still on the reel attached at the back rather than the sides. It made it a little fiddly to cut loose with hand tools.

The specs call for four feet square and four feet deep. I think I went a little over that -- it took just shy of three yards of concrete to fill it.

Good luck! I hope it comes out great! 😀

Tiene una altura de 40 pies (unos 12 metros) y pesa 89 libras (unos 40 kilos). Espero que esto ayude! Salud y 73!

@@StuntProgrammer muchas gracias por la información!!!,,👍

It came with the tower, which I bought from Universal Towers. I think it's specific to their tower sections, but you might check with them to see if they have something that would suit your application. However, I should mention that this isn't really what I would describe as a tilt-up tower since it doesn't have provisions for tilting it with an antenna installed.

I just checked and I don't notice any difference in texture where the lettering is. Not sure if it's double-shot or how they do that.

The manufacturer (Universal Towers) isn't far from where I live, so I drove down and picked it up directly at the factory.

@@StuntProgrammer where is it located?

@@theboogeyman826 They're near Detroit.

It's a Universal Towers 9-40

Hey, Supri! During a satellite pass, do you see a signal in the RTL-SDR waterfall (but can't decode it well) or do you see no signal at all in the waterfall display?

The antenna I put up (an A3S) weights 27 pounds. I'm not sure about the mast and rotator. Personally, I would not have tried to walk it up with any weight on it. It was not trivial for two of us to walk it up empty. Consider that the tower acts as a third-class lever and that your mechanical dis-advantage /increases/ as you walk it up. As it reaches vertical, I think you'll be at something like an 8:1 disadvantage, so your 25 pound antenna will feel like 200 pounds. Plus the mast, rotator, and so on.

@@StuntProgrammer Ok, thank you for that (although, your sped-up video of you two walking it up *did* make it appear "trivial"). Would you be willing to explain to me what your final tower elevating solution was (or "is")? - Do you have some sort of winch system etc. ?

I put it up empty and have climbed it to work on it and install antennas. I used a tramline to get the big beam up to the top. The next couple of videos in the series show how, more or less.

@@StuntProgrammer I see. Thanks for that info. I had to hunt around for the video, but I did find it. It would be nice if the "next" video link would somehow pop up near the end of the previous video. I see people do that, but I myself don't know how to do it (but would love to learn how to do that). One last question(s): Why did you go with a tram-line option instead of a cable/winch option ? I thought that was the main selling point of these light aluminum towers - easier to winch up. As far as climbing, I couldn't seem to find out how much weight these towers could support as far as someone climbing them. I'm 220 Lbs, and I'm wondering if a #9-50 would even support my body weight at 50 feet. Are there any specs on that, or general guidelines on that? Thanks again!

I thought it would be interesting to learn to climb and do tower work. When I was looking at towers, I think I found that the crank-up and tilt-up options were more costly and more complex than a static tower. Given those factors, I decided to buy a static tower and climbing gear. If you're looking to adapt a static tower to be winched up, it's probably a good idea to ask the manufacturer how high up you need to winch from and what an appropriate method of spreading the load would be (or perform your own engineering calculations if you're comfortable with that). Likewise for determining the safe load when climbing -- it may be specified or the manufacturer may be able to give guidance. I suspect most tower designs focus on strength against overturning (and maybe twisting) and end up "pretty strong" in vertical loading as a side-effect. But it's worth checking!

I /think/ I re-used the adhesive that was on it after cleaning with alcohol. If not, I probably used a bit of 3M 300LSE adhesive. I don't imagine it's ideal for the application, but I think I would have had it handy.

@@StuntProgrammer Thanks for replying. I reused an OEM click wheel on a new iPod build and now it feels like the sensitivity has gone down or like it has a dead spot. I can no longer do fast scrolling. I used electrical tape on the frame and wonder if the grounding tab is causing this issue.

Awesome! We walked it up as recommended in the instructions. I have a video of it on the channel here; I think it's the next one in this series. Good luck with your project 😀

Correct: the design for this tower base footing doesn't call for rebar. Some do, though, so make sure before you pour!

They're OEM. It looks to me like they're steel square-tube with some tabs. There's heavy-wall aluminum tubing where the bottom tower section attaches to them -- I imagine to spread the load over more of the thinner tower tubing.

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful 😀