RtInovations makes a Hazer type device for Rhon towers. I have one and it
works very well. Survived Hurricane Michael with a Mosley Pro 67 on it at
50 ft. Antenna did not do so well tho.
He uses Skateboard wheels.
http://www.rtinnovations.net/products.html
Hope you find what you need.
Les
K7LES
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 2:28 PM <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
> I am curious what tiltplate has to do with Hazer? I thought tiltplate
> was for a crank-up tower which is a very different concept.
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> Richard (Rick) N6RK
>
> I own a GME 50 foot 18 inch tower and the associated Hazer.
> The concept IMHO was fatally flawed from the get go. First
> of all, the tower was only of interest to people who wanted
> to use a Hazer. But they also made Hazers for R25, etc.
> A muddled business model.
>
> On my tower, they used sliding teflon "bearings" that went
> through several design versions. They all suffered from
> critical adjustments that tried to walk a narrow path between
> being too loose and too tight. My 50 foot tower had a very
> slight imperfection about half way up that made the Hazer
> jam on the way down (no positive pull down). I would have to
> stop and grab one of the guy wires and shake the whole tower
> to get it past the jam point. Sighting lengthwise up the tower
> did not reveal any smoking gun visually at the jam location.
> The R25 Hazer wisely used rollers instead of sliders, but still
> depended on mechanical perfection in the target tower. But
> Rohn never claimed to make "precision" towers. There was a
> Hazer 7 that utilized tracks (like on garage doors) that
> possibly got around these problems, but the cost was astronomical.
> The final nail in the coffin was the Tiltplate breakthough.
> Once I built a Tiltplate in 2006, I never wanted looked back
> at the Hazer again. We almost lost the Tiltplate last year, but
> it is back in business. Please support the new owner!
>
> 73
> Rick N6RK
>
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