What's holding the tower in place? We have guys on ours and they tighten up as the tower becomes vertical. We have a Cushcraft X7 tribander on ours.

Excellent Bill outstanding

Wow! The real danger is not from the tower falling that is being lifted, but the standing tower breaking and falling on anyone near it. Look at how much it’s bending! That setup is a widow-maker!

your forgot the antenna 🤣

Sorry to see that. Overloaded I think.

power winch it

that`ll teach ya to eat all that dad burn greasy food. lol good job you lived.

Safer than climbing the tower to assemble in sections 👍

i had to increase the frame speed 2x. watch that guy crank!

Your in a hell of alot better shape than I am.

Nice job.

Did tower fail, storm bent the tower, no guy wires?

Rule 1 you never put any antenna by damned trees. Wow how stupid

V for vertical ... V for victory

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Russia is great!!! Sergey

Very Nice and Good Job Sir

When you turned it on, did it explode ? with all the moving around and the little flux you used they almost must be short circuited underneath there! and also the solder contact from the right mosfet to the little resistor you forgot! not to be disrespectful by any means but I strongly advise you to let some one do this kind of work for you if it is a repair of expensive equipment. because the shaking will cause failure in your hardware this way!

lek kesel leren disik mbah..... santai ae....

I think I would put a electric winch on the lift crank. and not have to stand by the lift tower. Nice idea.

Hi can you tell me the mosfet part numbers please ?

just heat direct to the chip with heat gun iv done few 703s and ft817,, tip use kwiq chip solder.

Ii want to know how many ft long is yr crank setup.....a bout 30 ft and how long is the tower????

tower you used for winch pole...how many feet did you use

nice one old man

Cool, never saw that before.

Thankfully no one was hurt and the house is okay.

Where did you decide to put the guy wires? On the Hazer or on the top of the tower???

Very bad, not qualitatively

hope you got things back going. hope that guy wires will be used in the future. how tall as it?

They look really fiddly to fit,like your vids as I have a Icom Ic-703 do my own repair work on radios as my job,Icom have know about a issue with blown finals on these radios,is this the plus version with 6m? I own the EU model lucky no probs so far :)

Also Use Flux off liquid with a stiff brush and a magnify glass to check for solder debris,not sure acid tone best chemical to use on a PCB?

Oh forgot reset the idle voltage on FET afterwards otherwise will blow again!

A flux pen is a must when working on SMD and helps solder flow and very hot bladed iron,a gas iron works best.Work extra solder to get flow rate on RF devices I would not bother trying to recover SMD parts due to heat put all new parts back in ,apply a solder pen to help and give good professional results.Good luck

how tall is it? mine is 89ft and i used an 8000lb winch to raise it up, alot easier.

Nice job. KE5MUG

That sucks dude.