The #4 solid wire and the copper strap is also run to the house electrical ground and into the ham shack entrance.

Assembling an inner guide and support tube that is slid into the large end of the element tubes to provide a consistent diameter for the beryllium tape that must slide in and out.

A completed element. 30M & 40M beam operation is achieved by pushing the beryllium tape through the sweep and down the "return" side, creating a resonant folded element. Thus these elements are only 40 feet wide instead of the 62 feet that would be required if they where straight out.

Director element EHU and element return fixture.

Rubber boots hold the elements into the EHU sockets.

The tower base hole. 2x4's above the forms hold up and align the top rebar grid. There is also lower grid sitting on concrete blocks. The tower base that will be submerged in concrete floats in the center of both the top and bottom rebar grids. Temporary guy ropes hold the tower in perfect plumb. Grandson Adam approves.

A better view of the rebar cage.

How is this supposed to go???