On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brett gazdzinski wrote:
like a 60 foot mast. Radio shack does not even sell the 36 foot telescoping mast anymore.
Lowe's (and quite possibly Home Despot) do - the one I bought was a real Winegard - I didn't even know they were still around - or maybe it was NOS - anyway it's been up all 36 feet with a top-mounted Comet GG-style VHF/UHF antenna and my little weather anemometer - it's planted to a 3' section 2" pipe in concrete beside the house and attached to the eaves (at about 15') with a pair of 1 1/2" electrical conduit saddles.
Been up going on three years now, regular wind gusts of over 60 - 80 mph (many days of this per year) and of course rain, ice and snow storms.
So if you put in a 10'or 15' section of 2" pipe beside the house, attach one of the telescoping masts to it - you might have an easy-to-assemble solution - dunno. Of course it's easy to sit here and conjecture about it. ;}
Cheers John KB6SCO
