They say a picture is worth a thousand words… Over the Christmas break, we had a short but intense wind storm blow through. As can be seen here, the aluminum Spiderbeam mast did not fare well. Upon further investigation, the topmost guy line on the north side...
Background When I got back into amateur radio after a lengthy hiatus (45 years), things had changed – a lot. Since I originally held a General ticket back in early 1970’s we’ve seen the rise of the Internet that connects every part of our world...
When I first assembled my 5-band spiderbeam antenna, I made some mistakes. Hopefully these tips will help others who decide to assemble their own Spiderbeam. After assembly, the main issue I hit was high SWRs. Here’s how I addressed it with the help of Rick...
As promised in this post, here’s the parts list for the “Easy Mast” system I posted about recently. Note that several components I bought were more expensive than probably required, simply because they were readily available quickly via Amazon Prime....
In this blog post, I will cover the basic process used to mount the Spiderbeam antenna onto the mast (by myself) and to raise the antenna with no assistance, other than my Easy Mast device. I like to name things to make it easy to reference them, so I’m calling...
Been a busy couple of weeks, getting my 5-band HD Spiderbeam assembled and then raising it onto the 14.5 meter aluminum mast. Lots of lessons learned, like most things in ham radio land… One of the biggest challenges was finding a way to raise the antenna up on...
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