Everything Mounted, Ready to Raise

Here you can see the entire tower, in its lowered position.  All three antennas are mounted.  Between the lower  antenna and the Ring, to the right of the tower (just barely), you can see the blue StackMatch.  The StackMatch was used to feed and switch amongst the antennas. You can see the various control cables as the fall away from the tower to its right and left.  There were three control cables, for the main rotor, Ring Rotor, and StackMatch.  The coax that fed the array is hidden behind the tower.  Everything ran straight down the tower to the ground, then along the ground to the shack, which is off to the left in this picture.  The ropes on the far left edge of the picture were used to aim the lower antenna.

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