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1. [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: "Tim Makins, EI8IC" <contesting@eircom.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:10:52 +0100
Whilst looking at this page http://www.qsl.net/aa0mz/nbred.htm I came across this excellent photo of a windmill tower here: http://www.qsl.net/aa0mz/notresp.jpg This got me wondering why windmill tow
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00282.html (8,352 bytes)

2. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: BobK8IA@aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:30:05 EDT
Has anyone made one of these, or used one of these ? Have you any comments to make about the advantages or disadvantages of a windmill tower ? 73s Tim EI8IC www.qsl.net/ei8ic www.mapability.com/ei8ic
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00286.html (7,289 bytes)

3. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: "Larry Saletzki" <wa9vrh@mtco.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:59:26 -0500
Hi Tim, I can't vouch for putting one up but I did take one down a number of years ago. It was a 40' and had what was left of the fan assembly and motor still on it. This one was made in the late '30
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00287.html (10,922 bytes)

4. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:24:29 -0400
Its probably because they are expensive. There was a major maker of 4 leg windmill type towers in the USA 30 years ago called Vesto Towers. They ran ads in QST and CQ and most small airports still ha
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00288.html (9,763 bytes)

5. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: n4gi@tampabay.rr.com
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:35:06 -0400
Aeromotor. wouldn't recommend those things to my worst enemy. 1) narrow little steps are only located on one leg of the 4. 2) the base is so wide at the bottom, it's impossible to raise an antenna st
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00289.html (12,045 bytes)

6. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: K3BU@aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:52:15 EDT
4) The wide base also is a PITA when raising lowering things on ropes (everything drags up the side or goes down into the center). This really can suck when you're working up top alone>> Nothing is i
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00292.html (7,150 bytes)

7. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: "Gene Smar" <ersmar@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:07:02 -0400
TT: I had the same problem hauling my Skyhawk up the side of my Trylon. I had to haul the antenna up to the mast nose forward, that is, with the directors pointing up, so it could clear the trees in
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00302.html (9,986 bytes)

8. [TowerTalk] Windmill towers (score: 1)
Author: Red <RedHaines@centurytel.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:49:29 -0500
Windmill Towers, The Gentle Art of Getting Them Up or Down, by Malcolm B. Magers, W&Oslash;OJI, is in the Feb 1948 QST (price, 35 cents). "A new tower, complete and ready to assemble, can be purchase
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00345.html (8,575 bytes)

9. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: "Tim Makins, EI8IC" <contesting@eircom.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:48:26 +0100
Thanks for all the comments about Windmill towers - they make very interesting reading. I am interested in adding such information to my website, as it seems to me that such towers could be easily bu
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00352.html (9,310 bytes)

10. [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: DF3KV@aol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:19:02 -0400
A small ex windmill tower has been installed recently at our clubstation DF0CG, www.df0cg.de The basic tower is 24m high and a rotating steel pipe of 14m has been added. Later in the year a 4-element
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00373.html (7,455 bytes)

11. Re: [TowerTalk] Windmill Towers (score: 1)
Author: W0UN -- John Brosnahan <shr@swtexas.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:34:58 -0500
At 01:19 PM 4/19/2004, DF3KV@aol.com wrote: A small ex windmill tower has been installed recently at our clubstation DF0CG, www.df0cg.de The basic tower is 24m high and a rotating steel pipe of 14m h
/archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00376.html (9,028 bytes)

12. Re: [TowerTalk] windmill towers (score: 1)
Author: wmunro@lava.net
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:40:03 -1000
Quoting towertalk-request@contesting.com: _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.
/archives//html/Towertalk/2009-12/msg00082.html (33,253 bytes)

13. Re: [TowerTalk] windmill towers (score: 1)
Author: wmunro@lava.net
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:43:32 -1000
Mike and all: Two good sources for windmill tower documentation are: 1. QST archives has at least two good articles on windmill towers. Easy to search out. 2. Find O'Brock wimndmills by Googling. The
/archives//html/Towertalk/2009-12/msg00083.html (6,666 bytes)


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