How NOT to put up an antenna at Field Day

Here is a group of hams trying to put a 40lb antenna at the top of a 40' Al mast. (The original 12 lb antenna wasn't ready on time.) The results speak for themselves.
WAIT for the "surprise" ending!

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[VKQLDHAM]

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[CaTuber]

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

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[tomosa35b]

pvc isn't it?

[CaTuber]

Nope, that's a Al mast.

[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

[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!

[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