I have an HDBX48 that has been in service (by now) for nearly 30 years.
Mine has been holding 18 sq feet plus 8 ft of 2 in mast for that length
of time with measured winds up to 86 MPH. It's hell-for-stout but VERY
uncomfortable to climb due to the X-bracing.
Kim N5OP
On 1/3/2015 5:04 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
In my pre-retirement days I was often in the fast, cheap, and or good;
pick any two game.
I would like to solicit the opinions of the TT brain trust regarding
the best tower to avoid climbing. I've been there, done that and as
the years roll by it is less of an attraction. I'm thinking unguyed,
at least above the top of the lowest section and probably either
crank-up, tilt-over, or crank-up/tilt-over.
I have a 2 section tilt-over/crank-up with 3 way guys on the lower
section that with tube mast goes above 50 ft and handles light weight
moderate wind loading antennas (hex beam) but it is NOT going to get a
large heavy antenna and rotor (when exactly did rotors become
rotators? (Maybe about the time all problems became issues?)
I don't want to over buy (money is an issue if not a problem) but
don't want to under buy and regret it later. (Short sighted decisions
made in haste can be regretted at your leisure.)
Then there is Galvanized steel vs aluminum or??
I want a design that will take a minimum of 20 sqft of antenna
windage, 250 lbs antenna weight before rotor and mast, and preferably
no guys but a guyed bottom section is a possibility.
Ideas, suggestions?
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it
doesn’t matter who said it./
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