Don't believe the bit about "one man installation or antenna servicing." My tower (extra heavy duty HDX-672, not a typo) was sufficiently warped that it took three men jumping on a major crowbar to g
Last summer I put up 3 sections (two regular, one with the triangular top and thrust bearing) on the back deck of a two story wood framed and sided house with a Rohn bracket about 15' above the deck.
There are no limits to how far these tin gods will go in their zeal to tell other people what they may not do. /Rick N6XI _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.co
It works for me on an IBM T42 running XP Pro and Writelog. Yes. You can often coerce the automatically assigned COM number to something else using Device Manager if your logger insists on a limited s
As a crankup owner and K7LXC customer, I agree with most of your comments, Steve. I wouldn't characterize UST customer support as "good." A better description might be "reluctantly effective." I have
Your preferences are certainly reasonable, Steve, but I much prefer to climb my skinny little 50' guyed Rohn 25 than my nested HDX-672 (sic). The crankup has three demerits for climbing: The nested s
Our reflector host Steve K7LXC sells Prelube 6 through his Champion Radio business. Good stuff. See www.championradio.com. Get me a couple of extra cans while you're at it. ;-) 73, /Rick N6XI _______
I used a bucket lift recently to R&R a 3el SteppIR for a 4el. It was arguably the neatest tool I have ever used! I thoroughly enjoyed the job. For $200 I picked up a JLG Pro-Boom 35 (T350) at closing
Has anyone considered taking legal action to force US Tower to document their products? Their attitude on documentation is despicable. Actually, I think they are shooting themselves in the foot. They
I got most of the documentation I absolutely needed through back channels - underground documentation as it were. Yes, UST provided PE drawings. But what I really needed was a wiring diagram for the
They don't advertise that it is undocumented before you buy it. Sure, you can research the matter, but this is the only company I have ever encountered that does not document a dangerous and highly t
A similar technique is to run a line over the tree with a pulley on one end. Run the antenna rope through the pulley. Pull the pulley up into the tree, playing antenna rope dead end up through the pu
The big deal is removing and replacing the antenna, not the time or cost of a few replacement parts, so I would try to defer the NEXT R&R as long as possible. Therefore, I would use all the new parts