antenna mount

[otter]

i want to set up a base but not sure what to mount the antenna to.
what do u guys use to mount the antenna to and how high up?
thanks

[lonewolf]

I have my base antenna mounted to my home on antenna mast about 65 feet from ground to the top of the antenna. I also have guy wires to help keep it sturdy were it is fairly high and gets windy.

[626]

Sup otter,

Do you live in an apartment or a house. I know out here in Cali the major problem ive encountered is those stupid Home Owners Associations. Hey dont forget our CBRT get together on the 9th of May.

Also, I drive through Oxnard all the time. whats your handle and what channel.

GUNNY

[Circuit Breaker]

Sup otter,

Do you live in an apartment or a house. I know out here in Cali the major problem ive encountered is those stupid Home Owners Associations. Hey dont forget our CBRT get together on the 9th of May.

Also, I drive through Oxnard all the time. whats your handle and what channel.

GUNNY

I sure know about HOAs. My wife and I are searching Colorado Springs for a nice house that doesn't have an HOA or deed restrictions. Needless to say, we're having a hard time finding something that meets our needs. We've looked at older homes, but we don't like the floor plans or the look of the house. Meanwhile, we've found two new houses that we can have built the way we'd like them to be built but they all have deed restrictions.

[otter]

hey Gunny,
i live in El Rio which is considered the county not city so we still have chickens and horses in the streets and back yards.
the hole area is full of mexicans so i'm sure they wont call anyone haha...
its a house i live in too by the way and no such thing as HOA's around here...
I'm usually on ch 19 and 27
my handle is Rabbit or 227.
yah I'm gonna try to make it up there

[626]

ten four on the deed restrictions.

otter, I know El Rio real well. Im sure it probably still floods like a son of a gun when it rains. Oh by the way man I dont recall you saying what antenna you have. Im with lonewolf on the antenna mast. the guy wires are crucial in El Rio as well, it gets real breezy there.

Oh and Circuit Breaker... I just went to pikes peak last summer. I go to Aurora Co all of the time and I drive the 25. Wouldnt you kill to have a base on top of that peak?? long drive to work but, dang you could really get out. lol

626

[otter]

hell yah it still floods hah..
we finally got some brand new rain gutters that actually work.
yah its been real breezy lately too..
well i just wanted to run a 102" whip for now cause i have an extra one sitting in my garage but i was thinking of getting an A99 soon

[Circuit Breaker]

Oh and Circuit Breaker... I just went to pikes peak last summer. I go to Aurora Co all of the time and I drive the 25. Wouldnt you kill to have a base on top of that peak?? long drive to work but, dang you could really get out. lol

Yep...I want to go to the top and see what I hear. The last time the wife and I tried there was too much snow and the last four miles of the road up was closed. I'd like to get some good VHF equipment and see how far I can work. When I lived in San Diego, a friend and I would frequently go to the top of Mt Laguna (6000 ft) and hook our 2M FM radios up to a beam antenna and see what the furthest repeater was that we could open up. The furthest we could get with 50 watts and a 3 element beam was Prescott, AZ about 370 miles away. Prescott is up in the mountains so their repeater had some height as well...but it was very scratchy.

[626]

hell yah it still floods hah..
we finally got some brand new rain gutters that actually work.
yah its been real breezy lately too..
well i just wanted to run a 102" whip for now cause i have an extra one sitting in my garage but i was thinking of getting an A99 soon

seems to me that your A99 could just be put on a pole. Not sure about the 102. I took a few seconds to look through the section on bases and found this good thread. It even has instructions on constructing a ground plane. Circuit Breaker is on the thread as well.

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[626]

Oh and Circuit Breaker... I just went to pikes peak last summer. I go to Aurora Co all of the time and I drive the 25. Wouldnt you kill to have a base on top of that peak?? long drive to work but, dang you could really get out. lol

Yep...I want to go to the top and see what I hear. The last time the wife and I tried there was too much snow and the last four miles of the road up was closed. I'd like to get some good VHF equipment and see how far I can work. When I lived in San Diego, a friend and I would frequently go to the top of Mt Laguna (6000 ft) and hook our 2M FM radios up to a beam antenna and see what the furthest repeater was that we could open up. The furthest we could get with 50 watts and a 3 element beam was Prescott, AZ about 370 miles away. Prescott is up in the mountains so their repeater had some height as well...but it was very scratchy.

picture of Circuit Breakers house from 14,110 feet up



you know I really wanted to make the trip with my mobile but, ended up taking a rental car to the top. It was snowing in July lol.


GUNNY

[otter]

thanks Gunny.
key up sometime when ever get in this area.
i might just be listening in

[linearone]

if youre not using any real power a pvc pipe works amazingly well.

[otter]

i was thinking either pvc or the EMT tubing they sell at home depot, its strong so it won't sway in the wind and its really light..

[sparky17]

I use 1" IMC conduit from home depot. (I believe it's the 1" stuff). It has 1.25" diameter, which is what the imax2000 wants. It is also threaded, so you can attach them together.

a 10 foot length was easy enough to put up and guy with one person. 20 foot length was difficult with me and the wife (45 foot long total with the imax). The middle bends if you shake it.

If you want to go over 10 feet, I'd start considering push up poles.

[casper9]

Sup otter,

Do you live in an apartment or a house. I know out here in Cali the major problem ive encountered is those stupid Home Owners Associations.

i know that at least for ham operators, city, county, and state law can not regulate your antenna, only the fcc has the authority. i dont know for 100% if that applies for cb too, but i would be very surprised if it didnt.

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[Night Crawler]

i know that at least for ham operators, city, county, and state law can not regulate your antenna, only the fcc has the authority. i dont know for 100% if that applies for cb too, but i would be very surprised if it didnt.

PRB-1 covers ham operators but that doesn't mean that you still won't have to fight it in court.
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PRB-1 doesn't cover the citizens band.

[nutcracker]

I use a 45' telephone poll that is in my backyard for some reason. Put some spikes in it and mounted a steel pipe at the top where my 1/4 wave sits. No restrictions here! Its not very common but make due with what you have. Even a 20' pipe sunk into the ground will work.

['Doc]

The best general advice is to mount the antenna as high as is practical, using whatever you have to use to do that. There are usually some pretty good reasons to use a particular mast/pipe/whatever to support something. Those reasons deal with strength and durability. The 'best' is usually going to be expensive, awkward to handle, or inconvenient in some other way. It's almost always better to do it "too much" to start with than to re-do it later. From there, it's up to you.
- 'Doc

(It's sure easy to spend someone else's money, ain't it?)

[casper9]

would 2 guy wires attached to the middle of the antenna be enough? cause im not working with a lot of room. i dont have a backyard and theres about 5 feet between the house i live in and the neighbors.

['Doc]

Two guy wires don't provide a very stable support. Three are the usual minimum number, just like a three legged stool is more stable than a two legged one. 'Course, that just depends on exactly how/where those two guy wires are tied to?
- 'Doc


(A two legged stool?)

[casper9]

haha ya that makes sense. i just have to figure out how im going to mount the antenna, im a thinking chimney mount. how do the guy wires attach what ever is holding them down? are they skewed in something? cause im trying to find something thats not going to require any "damage" to the place. im only going to be staying there for a year or so and i dont really have the permission to do anything permanent. a dipole seems a whole lot easier but im sure theres no way the performance could match a imax 2k.

[Tinman590]

I dug a hole about 2 feet deep and poured concrete around a 2" pipe. I then put together 3 emt 1" conduit from lowes its expensive but very strong. My A99 is atop of it with a groundplane kit with no guy wires at all. We just had 40mph winds friday and shes still standing. Im in the mountains of NC

[casper9]

that sounds like a good setup. im going to look into doing that with my place.

[Tinman590]

Oh yeah those pipes are 10' long and already threaded on both ends to screw them together