Three fellow hams and a friend came over yesterday and we finally got my tower raised. I put a 10m Shakespeare vertical on the mast at 31' (top at 47'), and my first contact was with a portable station in Washington state. He reported a solid 58 signal that did not waver, and I was pushing about 75-80 watts. After about a 4 minute QSO the band was fading (it was already sundown here) and I was satisfied the antenna was operational. My concern was that as the third owner of this antenna, that something might not be up to snuff, but it performed well. Now it's time to get the 40m dipole connected up and relocate the Arrow OSJ 146/440 to a yardarm on the tower to get it up another 10 feet from it's current location in the attic so I can work more 2m simplex stations in the area.