From a guy with 12 years of military experience that’s had to set similar antennas up by himself, stake your first two guy wires while the mast is still on the ground (leave extra slack in them), then pull the mast up buy the remaining guy wire. Stand at the base of the mast with the guy wire in your hand and give it a good tug followed by continuous momentum to pull it in the air. It might take a few tries, but once you figure out the leverage you’ll get it up. NOTE: the mast will bend quite a bit when doing this, but don’t worry because it shouldn’t break. NOTE: leaving the extra slack in the first two guy wires is so the mast can over extend once you have it in the air, thus allowing those to wires to hold it in place while you stake down the remaining guy wire.
Great video Gil. I bought a US Military surplus antenna mast at the Dayton Hamvention several years ago. I have used the mast twice for the very reason you suggest. Mine the fiberglass pole version. Using 2 staked guys with the 3rd not attached I am able to add sections from the bottom vertically without assistance. It is a challenge though working alone. My first use was for 12 hour event. Following the event and stowing of the mast I chose not to use this by myself in future outings. The second use was a 24-hour event, the USA ARRL Field Day. I don't work portable much these days unless its about 100 feet from my parked car. Age and mobility prevent the hiking to remote areas. KB8AMZ
the mast is fantastic! the radio is absolute cherry ! it's really cool that you guys are running VHF using SSB . years ago, I used to run 'weak signal modes' on VHF and UHF it's just not as popular here in my area of the US , in the early 90s we had lots of VHF. UHF operators running SSB and CW, I don't know what happened. the only things on those upper bands that is popular now is DMR and Mesh networking. hopefully we can bring more interest into the weak signal modes. I still have a few rigs that are all mode. I just bought some military surplus masts at a local hamfest - has a fold out base and each section is fiberglass and it has a piece at the top that has a heavy duty brass/chrome pulley to pull up an antenna . I made guying plates from heavy duty nylon chopping board from the local dollar store each section is about 1 meter in length. the only problem I have with mine is you need to use gloves or your hands ( no matter how callous the skin is) ends up loaded with fiberglass. so I'm planning to sand the sections and put a gel coat on them or paint them with brush-on enamel paint. I have several fiberglass flagpoles ( telescopic ) push up masts, but they aren't rugged like my military masts. please , if you could make more multi-mode V/UHF videos, I think that there's a lot of people that don't realize there's more to V/UHF than just FM and DMR. ( I was hoping that Icom would have produced an affordable all mode radio ( like the IC-706MkIIG or IC-7000) for their 60th anniversary - I'd bet they'd sell like crazy, - Yaesu also dropped the ball on their all mode radios too. thanks for the video Gil , 73
I will definitely make more! It isn't very popular around here either but I really enjoy VHF CW and USB so... Very useful for extended range local and near-regional comms..
Here in Greece, I bought a couple of aluminium telescope painter poles, 6 meters total length, for 25 Euros each. No jumble of parts that can get lost. They are light weight, even though the collapsed telescope pole is rather long. They make great antenna supports, for example, an inverted "V" for NVIS on 40 or 80 meters. I can also attach various antennas for 2m and 70cm. I think these are simply great for portalbe work. I use 4 tent pegs and some cordage to support the pole. It can even survive pretty strong winds. I have not seen these telescope poles for this price anywhere else in Europe.
Have ordered the Clansman 5.4M mast for field operations. Was field portable this evening for the VMARS net. Great to receive a signal from you. Lots of static bangs from storms but between that you were fair readable. We are only 180 miles from each other so I am sure that could be improved on. Having said that I find these distances the most difficult. Larry
Definitely Larry. If it hadn't been for all the noise our contact would have been much easier. You were 3? (no s-meter). It's NVIS between us, straight up and down, most difficult indeed. We'll try again :-)
Excellent video Gil. What you have there is the Polish/Eastern block lightweight (lightweight in 60s/70s) mast from back in the day. It's meant to be set up as a field station. Actually I have the 10-meter version of that same mast, which is telescopic and can hold a 25kg antenna, or with the included accessories be loaded as a 40 meter band vertical antenna. I think you might be missing the insulator because that antenna should also be able load up on 40m. Excellent video and thanks for sharing Could you add some metadata to the description?
Enjoyed the video. I have a lot of experience using military antennas and mast while in the US military. Everyone of the mast we had was terrible to deal with no matter if it was aluminum or fiberglass. If there were trees in our area of operation I almost never used the mast. Thanks for sharing 73 Brian from Heilbronn Germany
Great video. You probably already know how to put out the guywire, 120° apart and at the same distance from the base as the guywires attachmentpoint height, and make the wires 1.41 times longer than this height. But if you should rise it by your self , a handy trick is to use a pole at the base of the antenna, about 3-4 meters long. Wrap one guywire a couple of turns around the top the "help-pole" and erect it at 90° (or slighly tilted towards the antennamast on the ground). Then pull up the antenna whith the guywire and the help-pole. Hans Elmlund.
You can use it for HF by insulating the mast from the base ( making it a VERTICAL Antenna using the antenna formula for vertical 1/4 wave antenna and maybe including a coupler or tuner ) and installing radials for a counterpoise =)
Gil I did make ( weld up years ago ) a mount that is on my trailer hitch =) Yep I need to get the picture posted on the tilt mount on the trailer tongue =) I was going to get it out earlier last month ... but ran into Light Control not working correctly ( old Toyota / Nissan type of Smart Controler $$$$ to replace =( I have the larger Aluminum military and two Fiberglass versions of the same as insulator =) Easy pull-up by myself with the trailer as a base weight =) I have 12 X 36" aluminum pole and the same size two Fiberglass ones all in the same tarp covered military bag the came in ( HEAVY to carry =)
I will as soon as I get the unit replaced under the truck for the trailer to be legal to pull to the apartment ( 20 mile away in storage =) I bought the unit needed ... just need to crawl under the truck and unhook defective unit and solder the old unit connectors onto the new unit and place back under the truck bed to the wiring harness =) If the rain and storms let me under the truck :-)))
For portable use on HF, I would try tuning the mast itself as the antenna and not bother carrying around any other antennas. 8 meters is about the same length as usually is recommended for wires for 9:1 ununs or "random length" radiators with ATU:s and it should be possible to tune. One advantage with the pole is it's much larger surface area, compared to wires, which increases the antenna's capacitive component and also decrease resistive loss. A cheap plastic cuttingboard should suffice as insulator between the mast base and ground. Remember to always place the tuner as close to the antenna as possible. Coax cable doesn't handle missmatch well at all and cable losses can deceive the operator or the ATU that there is a good match when most of the power actually is lost as heat from the cable.
Приятель, я имею хобби в области военного радио и немного знаком с этой конструкцией. Хлыст который у тебя изображён разработан в Советском Союзе, в далёких 60-х годах, или ещё ранее. Этот хлыст имеет русское название "Антенна Куликова" ( по фамилии изобретателя Куликов). Её длинна 1,5 метра. Это самая надёжная конструкция которая когда либо мне встречалась. Сломать такую антену - хлыст невероятно трудно. Фактически это просто стальной трос. Твоя антенна имеет дефект. Натяжение троса превышает необходимые значения. По этой причине, устройство натяжения столь трудно приходит в рабочее положение и тебе приходится использовать перчатки или коленные чашечки для этого. Вверху хлыста имеется болт и гайка. С их помощью нужно ослабить трос. Когда это исправно, перчатки больше не нужны и механизм натяжения работает без затруднений, и работает пружинный демпфер. Ты купил испорченный образец. Этот тип антенны использовался советской армией в радиостанциях поколения 1, 2. В настоящее время это устаревшая модель, и теперь мы имеем более совершённый вариант хлыста. Он имеет существенно меньший вес, большую длину ( до 2,4 метра), другой коннектор ( упрощённый) , а так же переработан механизм натяжения. Теперь нельзя получить травму. Трубки - удлинители так же устарели и больше не используются. Но это хорошая конструкция. Более 6 трубок совмещать не рекомендуется. Телескопические хлысты ( противовесы) так же из СССР, как и головка с антенным коннектором. Теперь эти вещи не используется. Как я уже сказал, конструкции переработаны в 80-х годах или около того. Мешок для переноски не встречал. Так же как и высокочастотный кабель и трубки для мачты. Вероятно это изготовлено в Польше. 73" ✌
hi where in Poland did you get this mast as I am currently looking for one and i cannot find an ex British army mast and one like that would be perfect for my needs for my antennas. I must say I really enjoy watching your vids so keep up the good work. Phil M6PGU
Hi, if you're still searching you may also try "allegro" and "olx" websites. They're kind of our ebay and gumtree respectively. Since they're in Polish type "wojskowy maszt antenowy" ("military antenna mast") and start from there. At the moment I see several of them available. Have fun. :)
I have one, it is well made but as you say a pain to erect but once up is rock solid once guyed. I bought for /P operation but ended up with a fishing pole instead. 73
From a guy with 12 years of military experience that’s had to set similar antennas up by himself, stake your first two guy wires while the mast is still on the ground (leave extra slack in them), then pull the mast up buy the remaining guy wire. Stand at the base of the mast with the guy wire in your hand and give it a good tug followed by continuous momentum to pull it in the air. It might take a few tries, but once you figure out the leverage you’ll get it up. NOTE: the mast will bend quite a bit when doing this, but don’t worry because it shouldn’t break. NOTE: leaving the extra slack in the first two guy wires is so the mast can over extend once you have it in the air, thus allowing those to wires to hold it in place while you stake down the remaining guy wire.
I'll try that thanks!
Great video Gil. I bought a US Military surplus antenna mast at the Dayton Hamvention several years ago. I have used the mast twice for the very reason you suggest. Mine the fiberglass pole version. Using 2 staked guys with the 3rd not attached I am able to add sections from the bottom vertically without assistance. It is a challenge though working alone. My first use was for 12 hour event. Following the event and stowing of the mast I chose not to use this by myself in future outings. The second use was a 24-hour event, the USA ARRL Field Day. I don't work portable much these days unless its about 100 feet from my parked car. Age and mobility prevent the hiking to remote areas. KB8AMZ
the mast is fantastic! the radio is absolute cherry ! it's really cool that you guys are running VHF using SSB . years ago, I used to run 'weak signal modes' on VHF and UHF it's just not as popular here in my area of the US , in the early 90s we had lots of VHF. UHF operators running SSB and CW, I don't know what happened. the only things on those upper bands that is popular now is DMR and Mesh networking. hopefully we can bring more interest into the weak signal modes. I still have a few rigs that are all mode.
I just bought some military surplus masts at a local hamfest - has a fold out base and each section is fiberglass and it has a piece at the top that has a heavy duty brass/chrome pulley to pull up an antenna . I made guying plates from heavy duty nylon chopping board from the local dollar store each section is about 1 meter in length. the only problem I have with mine is you need to use gloves or your hands ( no matter how callous the skin is) ends up loaded with fiberglass.
so I'm planning to sand the sections and put a gel coat on them or paint them with brush-on enamel paint. I have several fiberglass flagpoles ( telescopic ) push up masts, but they aren't rugged like my military masts.
please , if you could make more multi-mode V/UHF videos, I think that there's a lot of people that don't realize there's more to V/UHF than just FM and DMR. ( I was hoping that Icom would have produced an affordable all mode radio ( like the IC-706MkIIG or IC-7000) for their 60th anniversary - I'd bet they'd sell like crazy, - Yaesu also dropped the ball on their all mode radios too.
thanks for the video Gil , 73
I will definitely make more! It isn't very popular around here either but I really enjoy VHF CW and USB so... Very useful for extended range local and near-regional comms..
Thank u for great video,73s from,N,Ireland.
Very nice video. I love the subtitles and length conversions to inches (the French to English helped too!) ;-) Subscribed.
+texpat Thank you.
Reminds me of the US military OE-254 antenna....I'd love to get one! Nice video, Gil and thanks for sharing!
+Ron C Now I need to look into biconical antennas!
One can never have too many antennas!
over $1,000 new.. can find them in some surplus stores, but normally near a base.
Wow, I got a deal then!
@@RadioPrepper the model posted above the oe 254 costs that much...
That is a great kit ! The engineers that developed the kt were awesome !!! Thanks for video !
Agreed!
Here in Greece, I bought a couple of aluminium telescope painter poles, 6 meters total length, for 25 Euros each. No jumble of parts that can get lost. They are light weight, even though the collapsed telescope pole is rather long. They make great antenna supports, for example, an inverted "V" for NVIS on 40 or 80 meters. I can also attach various antennas for 2m and 70cm. I think these are simply great for portalbe work. I use 4 tent pegs and some cordage to support the pole. It can even survive pretty strong winds. I have not seen these telescope poles for this price anywhere else in Europe.
Have ordered the Clansman 5.4M mast for field operations. Was field portable this evening for the VMARS net. Great to receive a signal from you. Lots of static bangs from storms but between that you were fair readable. We are only 180 miles from each other so I am sure that could be improved on. Having said that I find these distances the most difficult. Larry
Definitely Larry. If it hadn't been for all the noise our contact would have been much easier. You were 3? (no s-meter). It's NVIS between us, straight up and down, most difficult indeed. We'll try again :-)
Excellent video Gil. What you have there is the Polish/Eastern block lightweight (lightweight in 60s/70s) mast from back in the day. It's meant to be set up as a field station. Actually I have the 10-meter version of that same mast, which is telescopic and can hold a 25kg antenna, or with the included accessories be loaded as a 40 meter band vertical antenna. I think you might be missing the insulator because that antenna should also be able load up on 40m.
Excellent video and thanks for sharing
Could you add some metadata to the description?
+OH8STN Thank you Julian, good info. I have a description and tags, what can I add?
Radio Prepper name of mast and a link. I would order one right away.
+OH8STN will do...
Enjoyed the video. I have a lot of experience using military antennas and mast while in the US military. Everyone of the mast we had was terrible to deal with no matter if it was aluminum or fiberglass. If there were trees in our area of operation I almost never used the mast. Thanks for sharing 73 Brian from Heilbronn Germany
Thanks. Enjoyed your channel...
I love exotic military comms gear. Thanks Gil
At 11:37 It's nice to see the YL giving you a Hand getting the Mast Up.😊😍👍👍
LOL!
Great video.
You probably already know how to put out the guywire, 120° apart and at the same distance from the base as the guywires attachmentpoint height, and make the wires 1.41 times longer than this height.
But if you should rise it by your self , a handy trick is to use a pole at the base of the antenna, about 3-4 meters long. Wrap one guywire a couple of turns around the top the "help-pole" and erect it at 90° (or slighly tilted towards the antennamast on the ground). Then pull up the antenna whith the guywire and the help-pole.
Hans Elmlund.
+elmis123123 I'll try that, thanks!
This is a nice kit and appreciate the video. Now to find one in Canada
Ebay is your best bet...
I got a pole from Poland hahahaha good one Gil, and good video as always (yes it's old I'm catching up ;)) Cheers - VK4ALE
Thank you, well, I think my future as a stand up comedian isn't looking too good ;-)
Nice job!
I also have a 251e in my shack, in between my 720a and my 471h 👍🏻
Great radios!
@@RadioPrepper Yes. And they look like a radio should look like 👍🏻
This is Soviet military Mast of R-105/R-108/R-109 Portable manpack radios. i have same.. good job!
Thank you, good info!
You can use it for HF by insulating the mast from the base ( making it a VERTICAL Antenna using the antenna formula for vertical 1/4 wave antenna and maybe including a coupler or tuner ) and installing radials for a counterpoise =)
+Pat Hopkins True, or insulating the base from the ground... U can also put an MFJ 17ft whip on top...
Gil I did make ( weld up years ago ) a mount that is on my trailer hitch =) Yep I need to get the picture posted on the tilt mount on the trailer tongue =) I was going to get it out earlier last month ... but ran into Light Control not working correctly ( old Toyota / Nissan type of Smart Controler $$$$ to replace =( I have the larger Aluminum military and two Fiberglass versions of the same as insulator =) Easy pull-up by myself with the trailer as a base weight =) I have 12 X 36" aluminum pole and the same size two Fiberglass ones all in the same tarp covered military bag the came in ( HEAVY to carry =)
+Pat Hopkins You can post it on radiopreppers.com
I will as soon as I get the unit replaced under the truck for the trailer to be legal to pull to the apartment ( 20 mile away in storage =) I bought the unit needed ... just need to crawl under the truck and unhook defective unit and solder the old unit connectors onto the new unit and place back under the truck bed to the wiring harness =) If the rain and storms let me under the truck :-)))
For portable use on HF, I would try tuning the mast itself as the antenna and not bother carrying around any other antennas. 8 meters is about the same length as usually is recommended for wires for 9:1 ununs or "random length" radiators with ATU:s and it should be possible to tune. One advantage with the pole is it's much larger surface area, compared to wires, which increases the antenna's capacitive component and also decrease resistive loss. A cheap plastic cuttingboard should suffice as insulator between the mast base and ground. Remember to always place the tuner as close to the antenna as possible. Coax cable doesn't handle missmatch well at all and cable losses can deceive the operator or the ATU that there is a good match when most of the power actually is lost as heat from the cable.
Great video. 73 from Abilene, Texas, USA.
Thanks! I've been to Texas, had a great time :-)
When I was a kid my my dad build a 80 foot tower for out tell a vision antenna. We hap pristine reception after that.
I bet, LOL.
Приятель, я имею хобби в области военного радио и немного знаком с этой конструкцией. Хлыст который у тебя изображён разработан в Советском Союзе, в далёких 60-х годах, или ещё ранее. Этот хлыст имеет русское название "Антенна Куликова" ( по фамилии изобретателя Куликов). Её длинна 1,5 метра. Это самая надёжная конструкция которая когда либо мне встречалась. Сломать такую антену - хлыст невероятно трудно. Фактически это просто стальной трос. Твоя антенна имеет дефект. Натяжение троса превышает необходимые значения. По этой причине, устройство натяжения столь трудно приходит в рабочее положение и тебе приходится использовать перчатки или коленные чашечки для этого. Вверху хлыста имеется болт и гайка. С их помощью нужно ослабить трос. Когда это исправно, перчатки больше не нужны и механизм натяжения работает без затруднений, и работает пружинный демпфер. Ты купил испорченный образец. Этот тип антенны использовался советской армией в радиостанциях поколения 1, 2. В настоящее время это устаревшая модель, и теперь мы имеем более совершённый вариант хлыста. Он имеет существенно меньший вес, большую длину ( до 2,4 метра), другой коннектор ( упрощённый) , а так же переработан механизм натяжения. Теперь нельзя получить травму. Трубки - удлинители так же устарели и больше не используются. Но это хорошая конструкция. Более 6 трубок совмещать не рекомендуется. Телескопические хлысты ( противовесы) так же из СССР, как и головка с антенным коннектором. Теперь эти вещи не используется. Как я уже сказал, конструкции переработаны в 80-х годах или около того. Мешок для переноски не встречал. Так же как и высокочастотный кабель и трубки для мачты. Вероятно это изготовлено в Польше.
73" ✌
Hello. Please translate in English, thank you!
Lol, its old soviet design, check r-158 or older. This spine-like antenne called whip antenna by Kulikov.
Thank you!
It's an old sovjet system called Kulikov. Just search on Google for this and always watch your hands while folding it.
+John Works Good info, thanks!
Excellent antenna. Telescoping Pole made in Poland 161 division good video. 2. USA. 465. Kansas City Missouri
Thank you.
With VHF nd UHF its HEIGHT< AlTITUDE, and ELEVATION!
Yep, makes all the difference!
hi where in Poland did you get this mast as I am currently looking for one and i cannot find an ex British army mast and one like that would be perfect for my needs for my antennas. I must say I really enjoy watching your vids so keep up the good work.
Phil M6PGU
Thanks. I found it on Ebay.
Hi, if you're still searching you may also try "allegro" and "olx" websites. They're kind of our ebay and gumtree respectively. Since they're in Polish type "wojskowy maszt antenowy" ("military antenna mast") and start from there. At the moment I see several of them available. Have fun. :)
Thank you. I will have a look!
Does that Polish antenna mast come with the beautiful women to help with mast?? N2YDC
That's extra ;-)
omg! A ham using a sadelta echo desk mic lol
I like talking on the. International call frequency 27 5 5 5. 2 the alpha Tango members and sugar Delta members of Spain 30 division
Never tried to listen to 27555 but I will...
@@RadioPrepper you will be disappointed with all the idiots on there...
Oh well...
I'm surprised that you haven't heard of the alpha Tango group if used to be out of one division which is Italy
Gil knows his business.
Not always ;-)
I have one, it is well made but as you say a pain to erect but once up is rock solid once guyed. I bought for /P operation but ended up with a fishing pole instead. 73
Definitely lighter...
I'm just getting into radios, do you think a mast like this would work with my prc-77?
+daniel Yes, but keep in mind that it is not really portable...
Excellent. Thank you I'm using it at a base camp for vietnam reenacting so that works great
+daniel I certainly would look PC...
Where can I buy this kind of Antenna?
Ebay..
And now it's based out of 14 division France it's a very large DX group in fact huge 73
I need a Good Antenna for my police radio scanner
Look into discone antennas..
73 51s and a pleasant dxing
Not so many rules it's more fun I've done it for about 30 years there's lots of DX groups throughout the world
Unfortunately 27555 is illegal here, but I can listen...
je suis tombé par hazard sur votre vidéo et vous avez contacté 2 des amis hi
73 de ON4LBF Albert
Bien! Vous êtes toujours à l'écoute?
je suis dans le shack pour le moment
j'ai deja vue plusieurs de vos vidéo
Il y en a deux nouvelles ce matin, 9h30 et 9h45...!
You can Google it the alpha Tango group they have DX expeditions contest and sugar Delta's also very large Google it
That group I do know...
На столе-сумка от противогаза ГП-5
yeah, poles... well we don't need masts
We ool næde a gūd māst'a
Cute Polish joke kg6mn
Takes so long for you to get to the point!
Depends on what the point is ;-)
Nice Polish Joke kg6mn