The Tower Raising Party

TelescopeMan and 14 other amateur radio operators help to raise the new antenna tower, and Mosley 33 beam.
See my earlier video that shows setting the base of the tower into concrete. A separate video will be posted showing the tower GUYING in greater detail.
Music is Straight Into The Light by Snowflake- remixed by TelescopeMan under a Creative Commons license.

[@geraldshultz4271]

WOW this was a great video. I never knew how a tower went up. You have a great bunch of volunteers, especially Gerald. It looks so fragile. Love your videos Joe. I always learn from them.

[@JoeLalumia]

Gerald, thanks, I appreciate the nice comments. Actually each section is much heavier than it looks like. With the guying anchors we figure the tower should withstand winds over 120 MPH-- of course the antenna would be destroyed but the tower should still be standing. Notice that when Jerald was climbing the tower and while we were raising the antenna (before it was guyed) -- the tower never swayed at all even with all that weight hanging off the top. The guys were then attached to mobile home anchors screwed into the ground 4 ft deep.

[@deanthemachine96]

This was really interesting! Thanks for sharing

[@JoeLalumia]

Everything is working and completed -- the rotor issue turned out to be a bad controller box, and one broken rotor wire. Once these were fixed the antenna rotor worked just fine. The SWR on all 4 bands is below 1.8 or better across almost the entire phone portion of 10, 15, 20, and 40 meters. I will do another video on the controller box in the ham shack, and on the guy wire anchors. Stay tuned and 73. TelescopeMan

[@KOVintageTech]

I sure enjoyed this video. I soon will be putting up a similar set up and have zero experience. I have a lot of great help and will depend on them to put it up. I’ll do the cooking. Ha. Thanks again for the great commentary. Kent N4KRO.

[@JoeLalumia]

Kent Oviatt thank you and 73.

[@Sky1]

I put my Mosley on my shoulder and climbed the tower, is that not how its done?

[@JoeLalumia]

Well we went back up the tower to check the rotor connection-- all was good. A spare rotor was brought over and we attached the shack controller box to the borrowed rotor with a short cable connection. The box again did not register direction, and was able to rotate in only one direction -- all the way. When it reached the end of the travel the box would not rotate it back around in the opposite direction. SO-- the controller box is bad and will need to be looked at. Also we discovered 1 trap that was on backwards and fixed that. Now the SWR is very good on all bands 40, 20, 15, 10 meters. Next step is the fix the controller box-- I do have a starter capacitor for the box coming from HyGain as a replacement -- stay tuned. 73

[@dbcooper1961]

Great video. You narrate well. Some videos no matter how informative I never listen too all the way through because of bad narration. I have wondered how such tall masts get erected. Thanks for making this! KN4KVJ

[@JoeLalumia]

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[@jasonwhitener6228]

Nice tower Joe. Very interesting. Can you talk to Japan with that. ;)

[@JoeLalumia]

Thanks Jason, we are going back up the tower to check the rotor connections this Saturday. We think one wire has come loose or is touching the rotor mounting plate.

[@KelleyTexas]

You didn't talk about the hay hauler. LOL!

[@MarkFelty]

So, what did you feed 15 hams that day? It was very neat to see the whole process take place. 73 de KK4TXZ

[@JoeLalumia]

Hamburgers, and smoked sausage on the grill outside. :)

[@charlieanngreen1758]

Hey Joe its CharlieAnn Green I'm Stephen Greens wife kd5hpq. We came with our boys to a rookie round up at your house last year. Do you know where can we rent or borrow one of the "Gin poles" I need to put my tower up we have everything concreted in thanks to your earlier youtube videos.