Johnny Canuck
Battalion Commander
D Rods more WS stuff.
I got my hands on a D Rod Mast bag with most of the parts to make a vertical D Rod 18' mast or 2 15' masts for a horizontal aerial. Actually any combination of D Rods could be erected depending on the circumstances, a tree, building, pole or tall feature could be used as one end of a horizontal aerial, but there would be a limit of about 8 rods as the guy ropes are only 35' in length.
So far I've done the 10 D Rods, 10 pins, pin bag, 2 stay plates, numerous fasteners, insulated links and 2 sets of guy ropes.
The set so far.
Partially assembled.
Pin bag containing 10 pins and the ground spike.
Stay plates, fasteners, insulating links and the ropes.
The guy ropes shown with both types of tensioners wood and metal. The guy ropes with the wooden tensioners also had 3 1/4" steel rings at the peg end.
The 10 pins.
The mast assembled in 18' configuration.
The actual mast kit. Many of the items were still in their original wrappings or what is left of them.
Guys, pin bag and pins.
Misc parts in boxes, guys, ground spike and the insulated base mount.
An F Rod adaptor; this is not the one included with the kit, the one in the kit has the spring clamp at the top and a wing nut on the bottom both are threaded. The first one can not be mounted with a stay plate as it would interfer with tightening the clamp.
Anyways that's it for now.
JC
I got my hands on a D Rod Mast bag with most of the parts to make a vertical D Rod 18' mast or 2 15' masts for a horizontal aerial. Actually any combination of D Rods could be erected depending on the circumstances, a tree, building, pole or tall feature could be used as one end of a horizontal aerial, but there would be a limit of about 8 rods as the guy ropes are only 35' in length.
So far I've done the 10 D Rods, 10 pins, pin bag, 2 stay plates, numerous fasteners, insulated links and 2 sets of guy ropes.
The set so far.
Partially assembled.
Pin bag containing 10 pins and the ground spike.
Stay plates, fasteners, insulating links and the ropes.
The guy ropes shown with both types of tensioners wood and metal. The guy ropes with the wooden tensioners also had 3 1/4" steel rings at the peg end.
The 10 pins.
The mast assembled in 18' configuration.
The actual mast kit. Many of the items were still in their original wrappings or what is left of them.
Guys, pin bag and pins.
Misc parts in boxes, guys, ground spike and the insulated base mount.
An F Rod adaptor; this is not the one included with the kit, the one in the kit has the spring clamp at the top and a wing nut on the bottom both are threaded. The first one can not be mounted with a stay plate as it would interfer with tightening the clamp.
Anyways that's it for now.
JC