I agree. I have had great success with 2 steel crank up towers for many
years. Both are still going strong and one is beside a salt water bay.
I'll take my crank up, cranked down, over any guyed tower in a Florida
hurricane; and the antennas are a whole lot easier to take down and put back
up. I also have a steel guyed tower that I like VERY much.
Tom K4RV
----- Original Message -----
From: <mcduffie@actcom.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] CRANK UP TOWERS
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:57:04 -0500, Sherman Leifer wrote:
>
> > So, if you have had a crank up tower where the cable has busted and the
> > tower then came down vertically, please send me an email letting me know
> > your location by city, the tower Manufacturer and model number, and I
will
> > compile all the statistics and let everyone know the results.
>
> Uh....how about also taking info from people who have NOT had a problem,
> so that viewers of your info can also see that a properly maintained
> system doesn't normally have that problem? It's too easy to not do
> maintenance and blame the equipment for not running forever.
>
> gm
> --
> There is no x in my ISPs domain name.
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