unless you wanna make your own like I did once took and bought a pipe flange to fit a TV mast into, and screwed the flange on to a 2 X 4 board. I put a temp station up back in my 11 M. days used it as a base relay with a Mag III Base ant during a river race of a 25 to 30 mile stretch . for creativity I had some really jealous people who could not be creative starting to well started to get bad mouthed... oh well.. :-)
Mark Holman mark.holman at talkamerica dot net have you reformatted your hard drive lately ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Perryman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:41 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: portable/mobile GMRS repeater antenna > > Bob, > For a portable mast I would suggest going to your local RV center and > asking > about one of their portable flag poles. It has a small base approx. 12 x > 14 > inches (place it on the ground and drive your tire onto it), and a > telescoping mast that locks into place with "push-pins". We used one at > the > pentagon for the 911 mess, and it worked out quite well. Not terribly > expensive, about 20 ft tall extended, about 6 foot collapsed. Fairly > rugged, and the base plate detaches for storage. > > 73's > Mike Perryman > www.k5jmp.us > > -----Original Message----- > From: rtoplus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: portable/mobile GMRS repeater antenna > > > > > --- In [email protected], Joe Montierth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Something you might look at would be one of the >> lightweight fiberglass base station antennas made by >> Antennex, Maxrad, etc. These only weigh about 4 or 5 >> pounds, you could also get several 6ft sections of >> telescopic aluminum tubing to support it, much less >> weight and size than the TV masting. For a short run >> of cable like that, you could probably use good >> quality RG-8X type cable for less weight and good >> storability. >> >> Joe >> > > > Thanks Joe...Your comments and suggestions are kinda getting to the > crux of the info and recommendations I'm looking for. I think you > grasp the idea. Portability, storability, ease of deployment and > dis-mantling/moved/re-deployed, simplicity of setup (could be very > dark/rainy/snowy/windy/etc. with the best possible coverage is the > idea. I currently have one of the comtelco fiberglas base > antennas....don't remember the model or specs but it's about 4' tall > and couldn't weigh more than about 3 or 4 pounds tops. > > I'm not familiar with the aluminum telescopic stuff you're referring > to....any idea where this could be gotten and could it be stowed on > my luggage rack ok? Course, cost is a factor. > > I'm just trying to do as much as I can for emergency services/Red > Cross/ARES/CERT/you name it in my area. > > > Bob, GMRS WPVV845, Amateur KG4WAD, LMRS WPXC892 > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
