What Goes Up…Comes Down

They say a picture is worth a thousand words… Over the Christmas break, we had a short but intense wind storm blow through. As can be seen here, the aluminum Spiderbeam mast did not fare well.  Upon further investigation, the topmost guy line on the north side...

Common Spiderbeam Assembly Issues and Answers

When I first assembled my 5-band spiderbeam antenna, I made some mistakes.  Hopefully these tips will help others who decide to assemble their own Spiderbeam. After assembly, the main issue I hit was high SWRs.  Here’s how I addressed it with the help of Rick...

How I Manage my Mast and Spiderbeam Antenna

In this blog post, I will cover the basic process used to mount the Spiderbeam antenna onto the mast (by myself) and to raise the antenna with no assistance, other than my Easy Mast device. I like to name things to make it easy to reference them, so I’m calling...

Raising the Spiderbeam – the Easy Way

Been a busy couple of weeks, getting my 5-band HD Spiderbeam assembled and then raising it onto the 14.5 meter aluminum mast.  Lots of lessons learned, like most things in ham radio land… One of the biggest challenges was finding a way to raise the antenna up on...