I will putting the TX-472 up in the next month , I am renting so I do not have actual homeowners insurance. Does anyone have any recommendations on insurance companies to investigate ? Thanks Dan N8D
"What are you going to do with the large concrete/rebar base when your lease expires?" Actually I don't have to sign a lease. It stays , the landlord doesn't really care , however , the base will be
Does anyone have a supplier for any of these other that US Tower , i may have to go through them but i was told they are quite expensive through them and was looking for a source for: ASTM F1554 SI G
I checked with Portland Bolt before i sent the email , they have the material and are quite knowledgeable , however , they weren't too interested in such a small order of only 3 pieces since they had
please send any responses to my personal email , n8dcj@yahoo.com I have moved to a place with no land based broadband internet availability (no DSL or RoadRunner). Does anyone have any experience wit
Well i sort of expected these results .... the general consensus is as follows: Hughes is bad Hughes is good WildBlue is bad WildBlue is good There was some encouraging comments regarding using Cell
I am putting the tower back up and need new feedline as well as rotor cable. I have never used (or seen for that matter) LMR-400 , how flexible is it ? the tower is a UST TX-472 crankup , is it suita
Sorry for the extra bandwidth I forgot to include this with my feedline question... I will be turning the PRO57B with a Tailtwister , and am wondering what size rotor cable I should use , the run fro
I recall some discussion many years ago regarding welding re-bar , i do not remember if the consensus was you shouldn't or you can ?? Also , since I got my TX-472 about 8 years ago they have changed
I have read on here in the past that the US Towers are designed to be cranked "up" when they are in the horizontal position , but , my concern is since i dont have positive pull down , how in the wor
Does anyone happen to know how far from the tower the raising fixture is offset , i need to make sure that i have the tower base far enough away from the structure behind it. thanks Dan N8DCJ _______
I seem to recall from about 8 years ago that concrete is up to 75% of its strength in 72 hours or something like that. UST calls out 2500 PSI concrete after 28 days , so that i don't have to wait a m
Ok , I just unpacked the raising fixture i received from Dick W4ETO , everything is in great shape , i noticed that the winch on the raising fixture is a K2550 , when i got my TX-472 about 8 years ag
Since we are on the topic of PP motors , does anyone happen to know if a PP will fit in a TX-472 ? Thanks Dan N8DCJ _______________________________________________ ___________________________________
Ok , i have seen several discussions regarding what people are using for ground rods.... some use actual 5/8" ground rods , while others use 1/2" copper pipe , thoughts on which is better ? also i wa
I have seen discussions regarding this a couple of times , what is the best method to shunt feed a crankup tower , it i s72 ft and will probably not have any antennas on it for the winter :-( , mainl
I just cranked the TX-472 from Horiz to Vert , when i checked it it was maybe about 1/4 bubble off in one direction... when i put a level on the base it seemed ok.. so , i was wondering jsut how clos
this is an FYI... I had read that the 2550 is much easier to crank than the standard 1550 that comes on these towers (or at least did on mine). When I was putting my tower up a week or so ago , I not
John I bought a TX-472 un-motorized :-( , i regret having not gotten the motorized version ever since !!!! the biggest advantage from my view point of having UST do it is that you also now have posit
I went out this morning to crank the tower down for the pending Ice storm , the problem is that the top section is stuck , i got lucky i was cranking away and looked up and saw about 10-12 feet of ca