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<blockquote data-quote="undeg01" data-source="post: 4069355" data-attributes="member: 26476">The TV antenna I had at my cabin in Bristow went down in the storm a few weeks ago.&nbsp; Since I hate having to fix or redo things, I decided to beef it up a bit.&nbsp; I bought an old rohn tower and strengthened it. Welded a plate steel hinge plate on the bottom with a 2 ft deep weld plate concreted in over 500 lbs of concrete for the base. Stood it up, bolted it to the hinge plate and attached angle braces to the building just below the roof line.&nbsp; The mast on top is schedule 40 steel pipe instead of galvanized antenna pole.&nbsp; Guy wires are 1/8” aircraft cable.&nbsp; Added a copper lightning rod to the top, with a grounding wire to a copper grounding rod at the base of the tower.&nbsp; It’s a little crooked but I can adjust the guy wires with the turnbuckles. Total height is 55’. I can pick up TV stations from both Tulsa and OKC.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]391023[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="undeg01, post: 4069355, member: 26476"] The TV antenna I had at my cabin in Bristow went down in the storm a few weeks ago. Since I hate having to fix or redo things, I decided to beef it up a bit. I bought an old rohn tower and strengthened it. Welded a plate steel hinge plate on the bottom with a 2 ft deep weld plate concreted in over 500 lbs of concrete for the base. Stood it up, bolted it to the hinge plate and attached angle braces to the building just below the roof line. The mast on top is schedule 40 steel pipe instead of galvanized antenna pole. Guy wires are 1/8” aircraft cable. Added a copper lightning rod to the top, with a grounding wire to a copper grounding rod at the base of the tower. It’s a little crooked but I can adjust the guy wires with the turnbuckles. Total height is 55’. I can pick up TV stations from both Tulsa and OKC. [ATTACH type="full"]391023[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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