As I recall, there was a home made crankup design in
QST (also in the 1960s) that used square steel tube. I
think that the design described went up to 64 ft. I
don't have my mags handy or I'd look it up.
73, Stew K3ND
--- "Tower (K8RI)" <tower@rogerhalstead.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to see a crank up design rather than a fold
> over.
> Friend of mine, (K8KNY) had one of these fold overs
> about 20 years ago at
> Forrest Hill Michigan. Almost identiacal excep he
> used concrete instead of
> the sand fill.
>
>
> Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
> N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
> www.rogerhalstead.com
>
>
> > Same system as mine except I use a 44 gallon fill
> of water to rasie and
> > lower my mast. If anyone wants I will take some
> pics for them.
> >
> > Tom Dixon
> > zl2hgr@xtra.co.nz
> > IRLP 6931
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> > [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Beltran
> > Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 8:44 a.m.
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Homebrew freestanding
> mast
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > My email program didn't like the spaces in your
> URL. Here is a fixed
> > > one if anyone else has the same problems I did.
> > >
> > >
> http://www.iol.ie/~bravo/Well%20Casing%20Tower.htm
> > >
> > > Looks interesting. Is that what you are using
> on your quad? Do you
> > > guy it?
> > >
> > I've seen this in the antenna book (approximately
> 1969) and some of the
> > handbooks. I am wondering why the sand instead of
> sinking the casing
> > directly in concrete? Tom W6EIJ
> >
> >
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