Antenna

*The G0BRA Guide to Erecting a 40ft Wind-up Tower* *Phase 1 - The Base*
*First - you dig a hole......*	*Click on thumbnail for full size picture*	*....in solid ironstone!!*
	*Under the watchful eye of the President*

	*Then you fill it in again....*

	*....with 3 tons of concrete!!*
*Stereo cement mixers*		*Topping off*

*The Team* *John(M1CNJ), Ron (G8DCX), Gordon (G4EBF) and Frank (M0BJN)*
*Phase 2 - The Tower*

*Fitting the Bottom Section and cabling for the tilting winch*
*Bottom section lowered to fit the other sections and to cable the raising winch*		*Raised again with all three sections nested*
*The complete tower vertical for the first time*	*The raising winch works!*	*The full 60ft*
*Phase 3 - The Antennas*
	*The 20ft extension and 2m ZL-special were fitted with the tower tilted but there wasn't sufficient space to fit the HF beam, and so....*
*HF beam hauled into position*		*Our intrepid aerial rigger....*
*....gently rotates it into place....*	*....and secures it to the mast*	*I still say those elements are the wrong way round!*
	*What a star!*