[TowerTalk] Tower concerns

[w8ik@subich.com (Joe Subich, K4IK)]

> Seems to me that the gist of all this is that those of us who live in
> Florida or on the Gulf coast can't have an antenna larger than a rubber 
> duckie on top of any reasonably tall tower.    I see all these ads for 
> towers with X number of square feet of antenna at 50 mph!  What a joke.  

How true ... I vividly remember a phone conversation with a tower vendor 
(and regular advertiser on TowerTalk) in which I asked for 100 MPH specs 
on his towers (both extended and retracted).  He completely refused to 
provide the information unless I paid for a custom engineering study 
(several hundred dollars for each tower I was considering)!  

73, 

   ... Joe, K4IK (ex-W8IK, AD8I) 


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