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61. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: Steve Katz <stevek@jmr.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:09:39 -0800
I happen to like extendable towers and at my past several homes have only installed those, not any guyed towers. I don't like the "Hazer" stuff, too much trouble to disconnect and reconnect guys on t
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00411.html (13,645 bytes)

62. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "J. Edward (Ed) Muns" <w0yk@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:21:19 -0800
One comment that I hear consistently from owners of crank-up towers is that their spouses and neighbors find them much more objectionable when the tower is nested with the antennas closest to the gro
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00412.html (13,935 bytes)

63. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: Kelly Johnson <n6kj.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:48:01 -0800
Lot's of cities require crankups for any tower over, let's say, 35 feet or whatever. They do this because *think* it is less visible. The truth of the matter is, as you say, that a retracted crankup
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00413.html (15,222 bytes)

64. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: Steve Katz <stevek@jmr.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:53:52 -0800
Might be able to hit them with the old, "But tomorrow my tower will be extended again, and you'll still be ugly." That usually wins 'em over. -WB2WIK/6 Lot's of cities require crankups for any tower
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00414.html (16,392 bytes)

65. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:16:16 -0800
LOL (+rolling on floor). Which Dale Carnegie book did you find that one in, Steve ?? Mike, W4EF.................................................... _______________________________________________ See
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00416.html (8,791 bytes)

66. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "Robert Chudek" <k0rc@pclink.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:56:04 -0600
Ed, I concur... my wife had never seen the Mosley PRO-67b anywhere other than 90 feet in the air... and later in a crumpled heap after the tornado took my tower down... So when I bought a HyGain TH-1
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00421.html (10,050 bytes)

67. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "RJD" <nj9k@wi.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:15:57 -0000
Even though I had to kiss the "politicians" of the PLAN commission I still had no reservations about the "crankup tower" for my future. Several reasons being my age was crepting up to the 70 mark in
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00422.html (10,292 bytes)

68. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: Ve6wz_Steve <ve6wz@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:26:28 -0700
Well Steve, I don't "think" it's easier, I KNOW it's easier !! As for being "installed" properly, well maybe you've never built your own antenna. Installing a commercial antenna may be one thing, but
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00436.html (9,524 bytes)

69. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "Jason Creager" <jason@creager.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:05:41 -0800
One advantage to crank up towers is that they can be motorized and automated. Of course, I can't find it right now, but I remember reading about one ham who was also a home automation buff. He built
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00445.html (8,281 bytes)

70. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up Towers (score: 1)
Author: "larryjspammenot@teleport.com" <larryj@teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:23:15 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Win - the tower that was damaged in the 70MPH wind, what antenna(s), mast type/length, etc. did you have on it? It would be nice to know more about it, since some of us are looking at buying towers a
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00446.html (10,135 bytes)

71. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: Rick Tavan N6XI <rtavan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:32:01 -0800
Your preferences are certainly reasonable, Steve, but I much prefer to climb my skinny little 50' guyed Rohn 25 than my nested HDX-672 (sic). The crankup has three demerits for climbing: The nested s
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00449.html (9,925 bytes)

72. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank up towers (score: 1)
Author: <jacobsen_5@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:31:56 -0600
Peter sent: "Some imp of wickedness (and a desire to get on with the antenna work) led me to tell them that we were Cathode Followers - Low Mu, not the High Mu creed - and they went away apologising
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00467.html (8,673 bytes)

73. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank up towers (score: 1)
Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:56:49 +0100 (CET)
Inquiring minds want to know< Jake, ' Solid state' provides a living for the XYL and myself - she teaches people how to use her company's software to design 'bit freak' (i.e. digital) integrated circ
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00478.html (9,647 bytes)

74. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT" <w2ttt@arrl.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:00:53 -0500
Hi Steve, Glad to see your sense of humor has not been blunted by age! I gave up worrying too much about all these senselessly intrusive regulatory items that unduly annoy Hams in order to give power
/archives//html/Towertalk/2005-12/msg00522.html (19,214 bytes)

75. [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "Dan Hearn" <dhearn@air-pipe.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:32:33 -0700
I have noticed recently that a number of hams seem to have a fear of dealing with crank up towers. I have used a TX472 for more than 10 years located first near Dallas and now near Spokane. It is not
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-08/msg00854.html (8,268 bytes)

76. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "JAMES HEADRICK" <W3CP@CHARTER.NET>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:06:43 -0000
Dan, Read your email and article on your club page with interest since I am going to install a US Tower TX-455 with a 3el Yagi Steppir on a 15 ft mast; this means the mast will stick up more than 10
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00011.html (10,323 bytes)

77. Re: [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: "Mike, K6BR" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:13:24 -0700
Jim, I have done this with my MA-40 tubular with 10 mast, 3 element Steppir and no rotator (rotator at the base) and it is definitely a seat of the pants experience definitely not to be done on a reg
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00013.html (11,463 bytes)

78. [TowerTalk] Crank Up towers (score: 1)
Author: Bill Ogden <ogden@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:13:38 -0400
I have a 3el SteppIR on a UST 455 with a 10' mast -- about 6' sticking above the tower. I routinely lower the tower and crank it over without problems. (The standard winches provides good arm exercis
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00098.html (8,871 bytes)

79. [TowerTalk] crank up towers (score: 1)
Author: "Craig Clark" <jcclark@wildblue.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:24:11 -0500
1: I left mine up all the time. Took it down for yearly antenna and wire maintainence. Also when a hurricane was coming close but that was the exception. 2: Grounded the base @ three points. 3: Was a
/archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00049.html (6,853 bytes)


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