Anyone have favorable/unfavorable comments about this tower? I'm thinking of a used one and, looking at the 4 eham reviews, there's a lot of talk about moving towers and needing to add guy wires. I'm
On the plus side, aesthetically they're pretty reasonable. This is a light-duty tower with a limited amount of capacity. If you live in a windy area, I'd be pretty careful. lot of talk about moving
I don't know just how exact the old discontinued Wilson MT-61 tower is compared to the UST MA-550. I've seen several articles that say they're basically the same tower, can use the same raising fixtu
The MA-550 cannot be guyed and there's no kit for it. Guy wires would exert substantial downward force on the tower, and all of this force would be borne solely by the wire rope cables that raise and
I have a 3-section Wilson MT-61B crankup tubular tower, which is not installed - it's just lying on the ground as I don't have any particular plans for it right now. I just looked through the manual
Hmm. Well, I stand corrected. I have a manual for the Wilson ST-77B, which I believe was the predecessor of the US Tower MA-770, which is the model I have (MA-770MDP with MARB base, to be exact.) The
Commercial/Military masts made by Wil-Burt are available with locking pins and guyed versions for large antennas/tall heights. They are often used for COW (cell on wheels) and tactical military micr
YUP...our emergency command vehicles have 60ft pneumatic mast and each tube has two pins. The entire weight of the mast rest on two pins with a surface area of less than a 1/2 inch square (that inclu