Saturday, August 13, 2016

Antenna Tower for Future Use

My grandad moved out of his home a few months ago and is in poor health.  The family has decided the best decision is to sell his home.  If he is able to recover, he will return to the assisted living home he has been staying in for the last several months.

I visited his house recently to take care of a few things before it was sold.  I noticed my dad had left the large antenna mounted to the house.  I asked about it and he said he intended to remove it but never found the time.  He stated that if I wanted it to go ahead and removed the antenna so I quickly removed it and brought it home.

Since our land is on a hill, I thought that we could put this up there and likely receive either a large number of radio stations or TV stations.  I've no idea when I will use it as we don't even have a cabin in place.  However, its free and in good condition so why not?


The tower section at the bottom has two damaged joints so I don't know that it can be used.  The one above it is 10' long and in really good condition.  The one immediately above it is 8' long and was mounted in the ground as you can tell by the rust.  The final piece at the top is also 8'.  If I just use the three top pieces, I'll have a tower which is 26' tall which is likely high enough since we are on a hill.


The damage to the joint section of one of the pieces is visible above.  It was actually not used at my grandad's house.  It was just in the yard so I picked it up.  My thought was that if I wanted to use it, I would use sleeves over the outside to connect it without using the joints.



There is also an antenna I picked up that mounts to the top.  I don't have a picture of it.  I thought it was just an AM/FM antenna but I've told it will also pick up HD television stations.  This will work good at some point to pick up TV stations at the land for free.... once we save enough for a cabin!

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