How NOT to put up an antenna at Field Day

[kaisersouse]

Behold....the world's first ground-mounted, vertically polarized __HF__ beam!

[2E0KOL]

putting amateur back into amateur radio LOL!!!!

[Rheinfranke]

Never put the mast on the food!!!

so the banana looks in the fals direktion.

it must look like a "u", but it must not bend too far

[TheZeke1974]

Thats a Mosley TA 33. Its wayyyyy to heavy for a cheapie mast. That beam weighs all of about 40 lbs.

[MIronLance]

Having put up many OE-254 antennas, if they'd have let the middle sag just lower than the head, it would have gone up a lot easier

[KatzOhki]

Pretty funny. I'm sure someone's mentioned the "right" way to do this...

[pspbarry]

i love the female laughing as they go, well me i would have put a rope at the middle and top 2 men on each to take the weight and pull but hay its funny to see

73 Barry M6PEC

[bluejay148]

that beam to heavy for that try a imax 2000 or a 99

[xe1ici]

ESTO PASA POR COLEGAS MUY GORDOS , DEBERIAN HACER EJERCICIO

[snowbird29803]

This antenna was just the right size; any antenna that does not fall down is too small. Why didn't we see the rest of the installation; we-all have a sense of humor. LOL.

[trisoctehedron]

Anyone able to recommend something that tells how best to install a basic metal mast c. 30' high for a wire antenna, or maybe one of those cool crank-up masts. I'm thinking step-by-step here. I'm a ham, but a bit of a klutz.

[911fever]

One of the best! Thanks again for posting!

[911fever]

GIT - R - DUN!!!

"... it's done"

Too funny

[combatwombat71]

I was just waiting for the infamous mast 'kick out' at the bottom, and piercing someone's jugular. Fortunately the mast kinked instead. 73 VK2GOM

[dorslv]

THAT WAS BRILLIANT!

[westkan]

No doubt that has played out many times over the years. Now we have digital moving pictures and you tube to use to "broadcast" them.

[KJ4TEE]

WOW thats funny 73

[XboxorMat]

E.M.E. ?

[HerbBeamish]

I hope they dont try to build any Rockets

[VKQLDHAM]

Introducing the Hill Billy Contesting Club

[CaTuber]

That's "Whiskey Charlie" to you, OM.

We hate revenuers, flat-landers and low sunspots.

Send us a QSL card and find out.

[VKQLDHAM]

well 51 sunspots today - a record for 24 - fingers crossed :)

[bauler]

Ever heard of raising something from 3 points. Should stick to AM/FM

[chichimus]

'sniff'

makes you proud, don't it?  :)

[ValikoDjan]

de RX1AG ,S-PETERSBURG ,RUSSIA

Very nice video ! It was realy ,"black Monday ' day ....

[K9FON]

What a bad way to treat a Mosley!

[freddo27]

I was half expecting to see the guy on the ladder launched.

[tastygarlic]

Now that's just hamsexy... Is that the SK model?? HAHA... Keep up the good work..

[fernblatt]

oops! LOL

[rufousme]

Any one got the schematic for this thing!! and cant we solder it in place!!

[tomosa35b]

pvc isn't it?

[CaTuber]

Nope, that's a Al mast.

[KC0TCH]

my radio club has two trailers with towers that first crank up from horizontal to vertical and then cranks up from low to high

[bradmann85]

ok, its ready lets start talking

[feared7]

haha, they just decided to align vertically this year.

[ironjob]

40 pound antenna...40 foot mast...that's 1 foot per pound. :))

[CaTuber]

Yes, but without the top three segments.

[KOOLDAVE1953]

11 Meter guys don't have much bandwith either.

[CaTuber]

Sure they do. But they always hear these di-da-di-dit di-dit da-di-dit beeping noises when they use their "extra" channels. hi

[umpalumpa101909]

epic fail

[OghamTheBold]

Those barn raisers use poles to push stuff up

For some reason YouTube suggests I now watch a Monty Python sketch

[ironjob]

Monty Python would probably put up an antenna in just this fashion. I can just see and hear John Cleese; "Hold the f***ing bloody ladder!" LOL!!

[RIVERRAT187]

us 11 meter guys dont have that problem

[ve4mm]

goofs

[VK4LA]

Dam Yanks for ya.......

[fireeater999cmcc]

hehehe 'amateurs' is right ;)

[carlpaulsen]

Ah the brotherhood/sisterhood of amateur radio. Everyone yelling at each other. That's what field day is all about. HI HI HI

73's

[19ac087]

ownd by an antenna! Real good job 'amateurs'!

Hahaha

[gregtheham]

I was expeciting to see it get up, only to have it come crashing down on the gang who were pulling it up on the other side...since I dont see any lines or crew on the "ladder side" of the mast. Hoping it would just "stop" at the vertical point on it's own ?

thanks for swallowing your pride and posting! ur a good sport!

[KC0TCH]

my radio club, the southwest missouri amateur radio club has 2 crank up tower trailers. 1st put the antenna on the mast,the crank it up vertical 2nd crank the tower up as high as it will go.

[todd8137]

done the same with a full size moxon square ouch

[G0IFI]

Oh boy, well, the outcome could've been much worse (for the antenna and the crew). In fact, in the first minute or so of the video, I expected something far more spectacular. Were you planning to take it down the same way it went up?

73 De Perry

[borg12of13]

I remember in the military putting up the long range SINCGARS antennas, had to go top to bottom, slidig poles underneath with folks steadying the rig with lines. Tried the way in the video once and snapped about 3 fiberglass poles.

[urbex2007]

Why didn't you all stand around the base, then lift and insert another pole underneath until at full height?

[CaTuber]

It was suggested, but rejected by the experts...

[beachboysjp]

3EL trybanderyagi!　But is not a mast slightly too thin?　I have turned.　The outdoors is pleasant!

[sig374]

I thought for sure that I was the only one who had ever done this. lol

nz7b

[theshortwavelistener]

The smell of success. So sweet...

[xe1mce]

I prefer my G5RV for field days jeje, 73

[CaTuber]

This was the second tri-bander on the site. Also, an 80m dipole, 2x20m dipole, 2x40m dipoles, 1x40m vertical, 10/15/20m fan dipole and I don't remember how many bands of yagis on the VHF/UHF station.

[XRayCam]

I was scared the whole time...glad that's all that happened (antenna in one piece) Kool

[peterwo2e]

wait a minute let it rotate and grab an element and push higher!!  lol.

[davebuo]

This gives radio hams a bad name.

If you know what you're doing it's easy to put a tribander and rotator up at 60ft on a tube mast - I've done it many times - but you MUST use a gin pole!

[n1swe]

remind me not to use this erection gang.

ps/ alse next time put a wind sock on the mike. happy field day

[PalomarJack]

Uh, guys? Next time, try an A-frame. About 20 feet made from 2x2s would work fine.

[GammatronTriode]

its a yagi

[rasputinsdog]

I saw that comin'. I had that problem just tryzing to get a 30 foot fiberglass mast up with only a dipole!!

[geenweer]

Nice vertical beam ;-)

[cbr07rr]

Can some one plz explain here what , technically this antenna is ..

It is a Dipole antenna (horizontal polarized)

With 2 passive elements.. One Director and other Reflector.

Thnx in advance

[CaTuber]

It is a 3-element tribander.

It consists of a single driven element that has traps that allow operation on 20, 15 and 10m.

As you surmised, it has two "passive" elements: the director and reflector.

[backdoc425]

...and this is EXACTLY why a push-up mast is NOT to be used to support a TA33 ... or any 3 ele tribander for that matter

[wfd57fatman]

Just lay it on it's end and try some moon bouncing...

[CaTuber]

When the locals want to do EME, they head down to the Jamestown AT&T site...

[akdude47]

Next time, just get a 30 foot fiber glass pole, run a wire up it, lay down 8 radials or so, and remote tuner, and call it a day. :)

[westkan]

Well that's what Field Day is all about isn't? Find out what DOESN'T work ;)

[brybish]

who was in charge and i hope he/she got the beers in do you think some one was trying to telling you some thing nice vid guys best wishes G1LGY:)

[brybish]

that is one way to retire to the pub early.

hope you had a good day anyway from G1LGY.

[CaTuber]

The mast was shortened to 20 some odd feet and then erected the same way.

At which point it was discovered that the 20m and 15m traps were bad. The antenna worked FB on 10m, which was dead.

Then a long wire was put up. That never worked right. Then a dipole was tried, but oriented in the wrong direction.

The station finally got squared away about dinner time.

And then the tent blew over in medium to high winds about 23:00 local time.

[kc7fys]

The phrase, "Can you go up the ladder any further?" is really funny, looking at the profile of the lovely man on the ladder.

[Mindraker1]

Iwo Jima this is not.

[disgruntldtoad]

The famous last words of this entire video "It's Done" will live on forever.

[Crazyworld1975]

YOu guys get an A+ for effort,been there and experianced a similiar end with a 13 elemenent crossbeam 2 meter beam in 1995 or 1996? that detroyed a fellow ham friend of mine's 36 foot push up pole!

[DigitalAddiction]

Lol, This totally reminds of some local hams here. I love it! I totally know what that's like, at least theres no power lines. XD

73's