Walking up an 18m Spiderpole is ok as long as you have side guys in place plus front guys (ie the ones behind you as you walk) plus the facility to shorten the back guys as you walk. This needs another person - or a pulley at the bottom of the back guys if you are doing it on your own. Doing it single handed, I find it much easier to use a 20ft gin pole.
73 to all Geoff G3UCK -----Original Message----- From: Igor Sokolov Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 3:21 PM To: David Cutter ; Jon Kåre Hellan ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK David, I use both 12m and 18m Spider poles. 12m one is pretty easy and could be pushed up vertically. 18m pole requires different technique, well described by the series of pictures here http://www.spiderbeam.com/product_info.php?info=p71_Spiderbeam%2018m%20fiberglass%20pole.html 73, Igor UA9CDC ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cutter" <d.cut...@ntlworld.com> To: "Jon Kåre Hellan" <hel...@acm.org>; <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK Hi Jon I tried a Hams4Hams 18m pole and I am not strong enough to push it up vertically. The Spider pole is even heavier, how do you extend the Spider pole? 73 David G3UNA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Kåre Hellan" <hel...@acm.org> To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK > > You could get a 12m telescopic fiberglass pole from Spiderbeam and use > whatever wire antenna you want with it. Use it as a center support for > an inv vee or for a wire vertical. My own crazy balcony antenna is a > full size vertical for 40m with two radials, can be erected or taken > down in less than a minute. http://www.ha19.no/la4rt/balcony.jpg. The K3 > tuner is able to tune it on all bands from 80m to 6m, that's when I'm > lazy. It's also easy to take it down and put up an antenna cut for a > different band, if you worry about loss or want to use an amp. I > understand that the tuner in the KX3 is just as versatile as the one in > the K3. > > Used as a support for an inv vee, don't use the top two or three > sections. They're too flimsy. > > 73 > Jon LA4RT > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
