He can "opine" all he wants.
He is an experience tower installer. He is NOT qualified to say the base
is "overkill", unless he's grown a mechanical engineering degree
recently. And who the hell does he think he is saying Trylon is "good
enough" for the average ham?
This wasn't opining, this was using his expertise as a tower installer
to talk people out of buying AN Wireless products and buy
Trylon...probably from him...on an internet mail forum.
On 5/7/2016 7:47 PM, ve4xt@mymts.net wrote:
Hi all,
It seems to me the question isn't if AN makes good towers or whether they spec
bulletproof bases. Clearly, they do. Dave is certainly to be congratulated for
a first-rate installation.
The question is whether an experienced, respected tower professional opining
the base may be overkill, or whether Trylon is good enough for the average ham,
rises to the level of defamation.
Does anyone think it does?
Difference of opinion does not equal defamation.
73, kelly, ve4xt
Sent from my iPad
On May 7, 2016, at 3:08 AM, David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com> wrote:
That's a pretty ignorant comment. I own an HD-70 tower and I have the pictures
to prove it.
http://www.ab7e.com/AB7E_Tower_Page_1.html
It is indeed a brute. I'm actually afraid of heights, but that tower is so
sturdy that as long as I'm strapped in with my full body harness and three
straps I'm comfortable working up at the top. I've been up there in 60 mph
winds and can barely feel any sway in the tower (with about 20 sq ft of antenna
at the top). A local wireless ISP uses my tower and had to get an engineering
study done on it to satisfy the local zoning people ... they came back and said
that my tower was only 18% loaded.
Educate yourself and read the engineering study referenced by VE7RF. The folks
who vouch for the AN Wireless towers aren't shills ... they just know more than
you do.
By the way, my 70 foot HD-70 tower was installed per the recommended base at
the time (2008). It was spec'd at 9 ft by 9ft by 5ft, which works out to be
right at 15 cubic yards of concrete. Mine ended up slightly larger because of
the nasty large rocks in my soil ... it's impossible to cut a clean hole here.
Dave AB7E
On 5/6/2016 1:02 PM, J.P. wrote:
Cue the AN shills...
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