The final stages of assembling the tower.

Several items that were installed temporarily to get it set up and working have been replaced with more permanant ones.

The 9 pin Molex connector has been replaced with a Cinch-Jones HD 8 pin connector for the rotor.

The spark gap connectors were replaced with an Alpha-Delta 4 position switch with internal ARC-PLUG. The switch is set to an unused position when not in use.

Added a ICE surge suppressor just before the switch. Check out the specs on these! Good technology.

At the bottom of the tower the remote switch has a plasma discharge tube on each antenna input and 1 on the output. When power in the shack is turned off all antennas are then connected to a 20,000 amp gas discharge tube and the coax to the shack is also connected to a gas tube as well.

An Amphenol 2" bulkhead mount connects it all to the underground coax from the tower as well as another one just outside the shack door. During summer months when we know there will be a severe storm in the area (every day!) I disconnect the coax and place it in a hook located 2" from a ground rod giving a surge a better path to earth than my shack.

100% of my connectors and adapters are Amphenol.

These items have 1/8' sheets of GP03 insulation between them and the wood.

Here, you can see 9000 lb anchors, 9000 lb shackles and 7700 lb turnbuckles.

Top shackles and thimbles are rated at 4200 lbs each.

The top cables are 1/4" rated at 7000 lb wll and the bottom are 3/16" rated at 4200 lbs WLL.

Everything is hot dipped/galvanized except the lower shackles which are 1"diameter stainless steel stock.

Crimp on sleeves rated at 4000 lbs were used throughout the system, 2 sleeves per connection..

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