We have used 1960-issue Army combat boots, size-10, successfully on our Rohn 25 for 40 years. Suspect they are narrower than the $400 Whizz-Bang super-comfortable types, but they fit on the tower OK,
Age 76, still climbing 80 ft -- somewhat slower these days.... 73, Don N7EF _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
At age 76 we climb real slow now. Keep both safety straps hooked, disconnecting-reconnecting one at a time as we move up/down, and also keep the positioning belt hooked except when going past guy con
FWIW, there are some interesting shots of the lightning protection, and safety gear in use, on the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janiero @ *https://www.youtube.com/embed/2BbsZXgXgZE <https://w
CAUTION: From years of bitter yourhful experience with model airplanes and also kites, what you really bad don't want to do is get your copter stuck way way up in a tree snarled with bunch of monofil
There are references to hanging in a harness cutting off critical circulation and causing fatality. But if that has ever happened on a ham tower, have not seen it reported here. By comparison, there
We have essentially this setup, tribander on top at 82' ( 34XA, 68 lb, 9 ft2 ) - 2el 40 at 70' ( CC402CD 44 lb, 6 ft2 ), on a guyed tower. Been up over 20 years and works fine. The reasoning was, one
FWIW, the quick disconnects available from Norm's Rotor have gold pins on both halves. Pricey, but don't expect any corrosion.. After nearly 40 years of using the old Ham IV 8-screw terminal strips (
The_Man asked, "Why would anyone want to install quick disconnects?" Those were our reasons. But another important reason we omitted is: You don't always get to do a rotor replacement during ideal we
Few more thoughts.: 1. Contesters have occasion to swap failed rotators in Real Time, losing precious Q's every second.... Quick disconnects *1*, Eight screws, *Zero*.... 2. Many things are done simp
Thanks for that info. Our Ham4 pot failure so far has not been chronic. The direction pot and rotor brake, in our case, had about 20 years of use on it prior to the failure. We have always noticed a
Option For Reference Purposes - Two-story house, shack on second floor. We run our messenger cable off the tower at the 20-foot level over to roof rafter. Coax & rotor-wire hang from messenger cable,
Soldering up a tower is a *LOT* different than in your shop. Any breeze at all just kills the heat. This is based on many battle-scarred years keeping quads happy using a propane torch...( hard to ke
Health Tip: Need to be extremely careful with any jury-rigged 120vac activity up a tower. For example -- do not try any of this in the *RAIN*....and do not get yourself between any hot connection and
Actually, it's possible to erect tower sections by one's self. We used a small boat-trailer type winch that temporarily mounted with two U-bolts on the side of tower just below the current position o
Typical antenna survival ratings are way less - 402CD, 80mph -- 34XA, 100mph. Even if the tower is good for 130mph, the real hazard could well be the shrapnel from disintegrating antennas blowing aro
Another consideration -- mortar holding the chimney bricks/stones deteriorates with time. And it's not all that strong in the first place. Every time there is a minor earthquake here in the Seattle a
Before summarily blowing off a guyed configuration, it would be worth browsing thru the TowerTalk Archives for all the problems folks have had with winches, cables, pulleys, coax pinches/tangles/fati
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net Note on safety for tilt-over configs, unless you have one of those setups that continuously holds the beam plane horizonta