That's a cool tower.
How tall does it go?
What's the cost?
Where can a guy get one?
I've been wanting to build a mobile broadband communications center. High
speed wireless access and/or sat. to feed it. Then I can do a hotspot of up
to a half mile or so (using a grid instead of omni). To make the idea work
nicely I need a crank up tower of some kind. Then I run into guy issues
though. At least I would with the old TV crank up towers I have access to
here.
As this'll mainly be a toy just to see if I can do it for the time being, I
don't want to spend much on the project.
Thoughts?
thanks!
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "KT2Q" <dxdx@optonline.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:54 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower pictures
> All:
>
> Received quite a few requests to see the tower
> after the winch failure, so I posted a few on the
> web at http://tim-tom1.magix.net/ . To get a
> closer look, click on Tower Pictures and then the
> full-screen icon at the bottom of the picture
> window.
>
> Thankfully, the tower didn't exactly free fall or
> bottom out. I guess there was enough resistance
> left on the winch and pulley system to slow it
> down. Everything on the tower looks straight and
> damage-free.
>
> Will tilt it over and inspect it thoroughly before
> cranking it back up. It looks like the winch
> failed because the crank shaft moved enough to one
> side to put the sprocket out of alignment with the
> pawl. Looks like a bearing / bushing issue.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their generocity and
> guidance and inspect that winch if you have a
> crank up!
>
> 73, Tony KT2Q
>
>
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