The 20 and 17 meter loops require a bit of reinforcement at the corners, seen in the center picture. On the right is a picture simply showing the routing of all that coax to the center of the boom. Each coax has a 1:1 ferrite bead current balun in-line. In the case of 15 meters, I used a pre-made coax loop as the balun, since it was lying around unused.

You can also see if you look closely the setup for getting the quad up on the tower. There is a doubled-back rope going from the top of the poles to a point high on the tower. These acted as a ramp, supporting the quad's weight (about 40 lbs.) as we raised it up to the top. The antenna was clamped to the mast, then the mast and antenna raised a couple of feet for its final position, about 1/2 wavelength on 20 meters above ground.

Unfortunately, it was an all-hands-on-deck affair hoisting the tower in place, so there are no pictures of that process. I thought later wouldn't it be cool to have a head cam while I was on the tower top! Anyway, it's a beautiful sight, once on top, and a big relief. Most projects seem to take twice as long as you figure, but when it involves tower work it is more like four times as long! Even after the quad was secured up top, there were many, many small jobs to complete, such as adding the rotator, routing cables, sealing connections, etc., etc.

In fact, it was approaching dusk by the time all was in place, and I only had time enough to hook up the coax to the shack junction and run the MFJ 259 over the bands to see how the measurements up the tower compared to those I took when it was still just a few feet above the ground. The SWR measurements are summarized in the table below. Note that I simply constructed the antenna according to the instructions, making the wires just "snug" not tight. The placement of the pre-drilled holes govern the geometry of the antenna and thus I made no adjustments.