On Nov 2, 9:05?pm, aemeijers wrote:
larry moe 'n curly wrote:
wrote:
My "grand plan" is to put up a strong pole from the ground right next
to the house (so the pole leans against the house). This way, I can
put up the Antenna, plus any potential future dish that I may want to
get. I can dug a hole and pour concrete to secure the pole in place.
But do they sell Pole that long? I am in a one-story house, ceiling is
8', so I imagine the peek of the roof is probably 20'? Can I get a
pole this long? (even if I do, how the hell do I get it home?)
They're available. Wrap it in a blanket and tie it to the roof of
your car, and have a friend keep a hand on it to feel it shift
around. Without a hand kept on it, there's a good chance cargo can
fly off undetected, judging by the number of brand new mattresses I've
seen next to the road.
Perhaps I can interconnect shorter ones to make a long one, if so, is
it still stable enough for a dish?
Radio Shack at least used to sell lots of antenna mounting hardwa
Eaves mount: http://tinyurl.com/245cqo
Wall mount: http://tinyurl.com/yslz32
They also had roof mounts (flat and tripod), chimney mounts, and even
telescoping masts up to 36' long. Fry's Electronics and amateur radio
(HAM) stores should also have antennas and mounting hardware.
I'd be worried about attaching two shorter masts to make a single long
one, unless they overlapped a lot and were secured to each other with
screws.
Most non-commercial, non-military, non-telescoping antenna masts are
sold in sections, maybe 8-10 feet long (whatever the longest length
trucking companies will carry as standard parcels.) One end is necked
down (or flared) to fit into(over) the section above (below) it, and
they are usually predrilled for bolts or retaining pins. Overlap is
maybe 8-10 inches or so? In the old days, using sticks of 2" galvanized
water pipe, sometimes linked end-to-end with a union coupling, was not
unknown. Those had a bad habit of rusting off where the cut threads
broke through the zinc layer. They would also rust from inside, since
people seldom remembered to cap the top, and put bottom end right in the
dirt.
For a typical residential TV antenna, that only weighs 20 pounds or so
and has a small sail area, it simply isn't that critical what you make
mast out of, as long as it holds it up there and won't blow away in
first stiff wind. The grounding and signal cable is what matters. My
antenna (backup for satt dish local channel service), is a little
L-shaped piece of **** on a 4-foot mast lag-bolted to the wooden chimney
chase for my fake woodburning fireplace. I had to remount on a long
scrap 2x4 screwed through the siding into chimney stack framework,
because idiot installer had simply screwed it on to cedar corner trim.
Under wind load, it pulled right out.
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whatever you do insure a lose pole cant contact in any way a powerline
in a storm...
theres a large danger of electrocution in varying ways.
pole falls over in wind, contacts power line, turns everything
connected to lethal voltages, pole antenna and anything connected to
antenna, like tv vcr etc etc