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This is the tower that needs to go up. It is a TriEx WT-51 self supporting crank up. As the foundation gets started, I will post pictures of the progress here.

My current antenna system consists of a Butternut HF-2V (below) with 160 and 30 Meter Coils. (160, 80, 60, 40 and 30)

Butternut HF-2V 160 Meter Loading Coil at the base and 80, 40 and 30 Meter Coils bottom to top (above)

Also a Cushcraft R7 Vertical, roof mounted. (40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, 10 and 6) (below)

For VHF, I have a Comet GP-9 roof mounted. (144 and 440) (below)

Just recently, I put up a 222 MHz Ringo Ranger on another roof tripod. (below)

Here is my Cushcraft A3S with 40 Meter add-on. It is mounted above a Glen Martin Roof Tower on the garage roof. It is rotated by a HAM IV rotor. This rotor and roof tower will be used for my VHF arrays when my tower is up.

The plan, once the tower is up, is to have (on the tower) a Cushcraft A3S with 40 Meter add-on, above it, a 5 element 6 Meter beam, above that, a horizontal polarized 11 element 2 Meter beam and the GP-9 at the top. I have a Ham IV rotor with the Idiom Press RS-232 mod to rotate the mast.

Since I will now have a Glen Martin roof tower up, it will contain a 13 element 220 MHz beam and above it, a 15 element 440 MHz beam. The Ham IV rotor will turn these arrays.

The last thing is that I will either shunt feed the tower for 160 or put up an inverted "L" using the tower as a support. My intention is to utilize either of these antennas depending on conditions and noise levels. I am also going to put up a 75/80 Meter dipole as an NVIS antenna for RACES use.

This should keep me happy for a week or two! ( Hi Hi )