I am responding to the the thread of "25g Roof Tower" K7LXC responded
below. I have seen the GME roof towers at Dayton and was quite impressed
with them. I would like to hear more from someone who owns one of these
things as to how it is holding up. Do you climb it to put on the beams?
What are the "ins and outs" of the roof towers?
Years ago, when I was a teenager (OK, several decades), I had an old
windcharger tower from the 30's holding up a TH3. IT did quite well. Of
course, it was securely attached to my Dad's garage at the time. We had it
guyed with "bailing-wire" (Hey, I was a teenage and a ham for just four
years out in Kansas and knew nothing) to hooks in the roof. It never came
down in a wind and it was easy to service the antenna.
I am wondering what other people are doing in roof mount HF antennas.
Lee Buller
At 08:36 AM 3/19/99 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 99-03-12 22:05:05 EST, kg2db@ibm.net writes:
>
>> Wondering if 25g could be roof mounted effecively to support
>> a C3/C4. How high would one dare to go. Also wondering how to guy it
>> all. This is a plan B approach just in case the town doesnt approve my
>> ground mtd tower.
>
> First question, what state and county are you in?
>
> 25G is mostly used in a guyed configuration. Will you be guying it? How
>tall did you want to go?
>
> My preference for roof-mounting is a GME roof tower - they're 4-legged
>and properly installed will do quite well. The C-3/4 isn't a real big load so
>that would make things even easier.
>
>Cheers, Steve K7LXC
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