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All three poles are now installed. The antenna will be fed with 700 meters (2,300 feet) of 1-5/8″ Hardline Coaxial cable.
The King has risen.
With the help of a 25 ton crawler excavator equipped with a hydraulic rock breaker, we dug a 2.5m deep hole in solid rock. The 27 metre long pole weighing 3 tonnes was then inserted into the hole and secured with rocks around the base and temporary guy wires.
New guy anchors will be inserted into the rock and the King will support a 160M transmit vertical antenna before winter.
I am very grateful to Jón Bjarnason, who provided the crawler excavator and raised the pole for me.
The photos were taken by Finnbjörn Bjarnason using my camera.
Today I raised the vertical antenna. It is now secured with temporary guy ropes and the Phillystran top guys.
I must have had to climb the tower at least 20 times to unravel the mess of wires coming from the top section.
