Homemade diy telescoping mast

[@kb5miqbigboy]

Good video!!! 73!!

[@ahuggins6]

I need to do a follow up and show the curve in the pole that’s left because I don’t have enough guy wires.

[@honeybadger6127]

has it held up well since you've put this up?

[@ahuggins6]

It's interesting you should ask now. We had a couple days of high winds a couple weeks ago. Somehow, even with all the guy wires, it ended up falling over. Guy wires still entact. Every piece is now scrap metal. I have no idea how it was able to move in order to bend over.

[@honeybadger6127]

@@ahuggins6 - if you put it up again, what would you do differently?

[@ahuggins6]

@@honeybadger6127 I would add another set of guy wires. But I have a friend who picked up a channel master pole at a ham fest last week and they've said they might sell that to me cheap. Otherwise, I'd put the 120 or more bux that would toward more conduit into a round h50 or a new channel master. But if someone has neither of those options available without expensive shipping, I'd do the conduit again and make sure it's guyed very stout. One of my guy poi ts was too close to the pole, so that might be the way it moved. I haven't thought too much on the math of it.

[@lawrencethompson465]

How easily do the sections slide as you raise or lower the mast? Are they lubricated with anything?

[@ahuggins6]

There’s a lot of difference in the size of the different joints. So there’s lots of slack. Unless you use a bent joint, it’s easy to slide them up and down. My H50 rohn pole however had a couple screws get tightened too much and so the joints are somewhat misshaped now, which makes it a little difficult sometimes.

[@lawrencethompson465]

@@ahuggins6 OK, Thanks for your reply.