Hello all who have aluminum towers. I am thinking of putting up the tilt-over self supporting aluminum tower from Heights Towers. This one is 69' with the tilt-over kit and is rated at 21sq' at 80mph
Hi Dennis - I have a 60' Heights tower with a fold-over kit and 10 feet of mast out the top. It's been up for 5 years now and I'm very happy with it. You do need to watch how big an antenna you put o
Thanks for taking the time to respond Dick. Very good input on some of the issues I would be faced with. How do you rotate the antenna at 40' or is it stationaly? Isn't there some kind of ring assemb
Don't forget that you must comply with the dead weight capacity of your tilt-over tower. This is important, a nearby ham failed to comply with the dead weight specification and his Heights fold-over
Frank brings up the major fallacy in the lightweight aluminum tower foldover paradigm. To really utilize the light weight of the aluminum to advantage, you need to use a Hazer system like on the Glen
Thanks Frank for the dead weight reminder... _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lis
I have seen several interesting comments on the reflector concerning Heights Alum towers; and in fact, I posted a couple myself. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have three of them and they all t
There must have been more at work here than the marginal addition of some Heliax. I designed the fold-over mechanism for the Heights new tower series a few years ago, in accordance with the Aluminum
Thanks Bob for taking the time to set us straight. This info is timely because I'm interested in purchasing one of the HT soon. Regrads, Dennis, k0eoo _______________________________________________
Hi Dick, Unlike K3CB's recent experiences with the catastrophic failure ofboth of his Heights crank-up towers (one in dead calm weather and the other in light 30 MPH winds), the collapse of the Heigh
Hi all, As being the lucky person to clean up the mess left by Owen's tower failures, I can tell you first hand that all antenna weights, wind load specs, lengths, etc. were passed on to Heights befo
I hope I can properly phrase this and although experienced I'm certainly no expert either and it has been a while. There are some differences, but the appearance of a good weld and failure is pretty
Correction to my math: 700 lbs x 8 ft = 5600 ft-lbs; but you get the idea. Thanks for the nice comments off-line. Bob, W5LT There must have been more at work here than the marginal addition of some H
I was visiting my old buddies, Harbor Frieight, a couple weeks ago ... they had on special an aluminum welding rod that advertised you only needed a propane torch to make a super aluminum connection