- 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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