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Hinge your FM farm. Hinging the mast on your FM antenna farm will allow for easier servicing.
AUDIO AMATEUR 4/1971 [Jul 1972] (v.2#4) pg. 12

Towering aspirations. How to get that big antenna into the air. Tips on installing an FM or TV tower which is set on a concrete base and bracketed to the side of a house.
AUDIO AMATEUR 3/1981 [Jun 1981] (v.12#3) pg. 7

Use the antenna tower itself as a half-wave vertical antenna for either 40 or 80 meters by the addition of isolators on each tower leg and the addition of an exciter.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Dec 1979 (v.35#12) pg. 39

An improved method of leveling antenna towers.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jul 1981 (v.37#7) pg. 20

The square tower. Build an antenna tower having four legs made from 4"x4" or 4"x6" wood. It is sturdy and safe for climbing and standing on.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jul 1981 (v.37#7) pg. 32

Put that antenna tower up to stay. Tips on correct guy wires, eye-bolts and guy anchors.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Sep 1981 (v.37#9) pg. 32

An idea for adding the tilt-over feature to your antenna tower.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jan 1983 (v.39#1) pg. 32

Photographs illustrate the roll-over tower hinge arrangement for a 40-ft. tower attached to the end of a house.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Dec 1983 (v.39#12) pg. 94
Added Info CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jan 1984 (v.40#1) pg. 65

How to utilize a "tramline" and "come-along" to raise and lower a Yagi antenna from the top of a 100-ft. tower.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Apr 1984 (v.40#4) pg. 54

How to build a plywood antenna tower. This 32-ft. tower is built from one 4x8-ft. sheet of plywood.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1984 (v.40#8) pg. 25

How to design a real estate efficient antenna farm. Part 1. Planning and tower considerations.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1984 (v.40#8) pg. 44

Program for a Commodore C-64 computer which calculates trigonometric values of any right triangle. Useful when designing radio antennas, towers, masts, guy wires, etc.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Mar 1986 (v.42#3) pg. 40

Using a mountaineering safety harness to make climbing and working on antenna towers safer and more comfortable.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1986 (v.42#8) pg. 24

Calculating wind stress on towers and guy wires. Computer program written in BASIC.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jan 1987 (v.43#1) pg. 28
Added Info CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Apr 1987 (v.43#4) pg. 8

Selecting "safe" guy-wire lengths for HF antennas. "Safe" lengths will not produce any resonance.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jan 1987 (v.43#1) pg. 66

A fold-over tower support for your B&W AV-25 vertical antenna. Constructed from good-quality pressure-treated lumber.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Apr 1987 (v.43#4) pg. 58

Antenna mast is made from 3" aluminum irrigation tubing. An insulated wire is run through the center of the mast (using spacers) forming the "coax" connector for the antenna attached to the top of the mast.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1988 (v.44#8) pg. 13

Build a tree-mounted bracket to support your antenna.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1989 (v.45#8) pg. 28

An alternative mast design. Simplifying the antenna stacking process. A mast design and antenna-mounting concept which can make tower work a lot easier.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL May 1990 (v.46#5) pg. 46

Surviving and enjoying life as a cliff dweller. Tips on installing a mini antenna farm on the roof of a town house or apartment complex without raising the ire of other renters and/or violating zoning ordinances.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jul 1990 (v.46#7) pg. 92

Build a swivel mount for your vertical antenna. How to fabricate a simple device for raising and lowering vertical antennas.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Apr 1991 (v.47#4) pg. 44

Build your own rotatable antenna mount for measuring antenna field patterns.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL May 1991 (v.47#5) pg. 42

Tip on installing a rotary beam antenna on a flat roof.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jan 1992 (v.48#1) pg. 108

Tip on concealing an antenna as the pole for a bird feeding station.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1992 (v.48#8) pg. 50

Make a sturdy yet easily assembled antenna support for any sort of portable operation. A counterweighted hinge assembly is used to raise and lower (tilt up and down) a 26 ft. aluminum antenna mast.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL May 1994 (v.50#5) pg. 64

How to mount a tower on a concrete base so that it is insulated from the base and can double as a low-band vertical antenna.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Nov 1994 (v.50#11) pg. 52

Build your own "gin pole" to hoist up each new section of an antenna tower. The gin pole clamps securely to the top of the assembled tower during the hoisting process.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Apr 1995 (v.51#4) pg. 20

A layman's guide to antenna mast material.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Jun 1995 (v.51#6) pg. 24

How to install a tower on your roof.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Mar 1996 (v.52#3) pg. 26

How to compute guy-wire lengths for antenna towers.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Aug 1996 (v.52#8) pg. 28

Tips on installing and maintaining a roof-mounted antenna tower.
CQ. THE RADIO AMATEUR'S JOURNAL Apr 1998 (v.54#4) pg. 32

Adapting a standard tripod mount antenna tower to a sloping roof.
ELECTRONICS ILLUSTRATED Jan 1967 (v.10#1) pg. 102

An antenna tower 40 feet high. Tower serves to anchor one end of the average half-wave, long-wire, antenna (up to and including 130-135 ft. span for the 75-80 meter band). Constucted of metal eavestrough downspout sections.
ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS Jan-Feb 1967 (v.3#3) pg. 23

Erecting a roof-top TV tower that has tripod legs and requires no guy wires.
ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS Mar-Apr 1969 (v.8#1) pg. 73

Radio antenna doubles as a flag pole.
ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS Jul-Aug 1973 (v.13#4) pg. 51

Install your own maintenance-free aluminum antenna tower. The ASCOM tower shown is assembled on the ground and then pivoted up into place. The 50-ft. model weighs only 97 lbs.
ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS Jan-Feb 1974 (v.14#1) pg. 41

How to build antenna truss from electrical metallic tubing (EMT) and 1/4" steel rod. Use them to make your own antenna or windplant towers.
MOTHER EARTH NEWS #78 Nov-Dec 1982 pg. 156

Some antenna erection safety guidelines.
POPULAR COMMUNICATIONS Sep 1992 (v.11#1) pg. 28

Loading up a tower. How to utilize a metal antenna tower as a random length, vertically polarized, Marconi antenna.
POPULAR ELECTRONICS [2] May 1993 (v.10#5) pg. 78

Tip on safetying a slip-up tower so that it can be climbed with no chance of the sections slipping.
POPULAR ELECTRONICS [2] May 1993 (v.10#5) pg. 79

How to install a booster or rotor to a TV antenna so you can add enough miles of distance to pick up blacked-out sports events.
POPULAR MECHANICS Nov 1970 (v.134#5) pg. 100

Rugged mast for TV antenna, bird house or anything else is built from thinwall electrical conduit. Spacers are either bolted-on wood or welded-on tubing.
POPULAR MECHANICS Dec 1972 (v.138#6) pg. 186

Step-by-step approach to installing TV antenna towers of the bracketed style.
RADIO-ELECTRONICS Apr 1977 (v.48#4) pg. 70

Erecting a TV tower and installing an antenna on top of the tower.
RADIO-TV EXPERIMENTER #806 Oct-Nov 1966 (v.21#2) pg. 75

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