Great history, Skip.
Didn't Tri-Ex originally stand for "Tristao Extendable?" I seem to recall
that...
Steve WB2WIK
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From: KJ6Y@aol.com [mailto:KJ6Y@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:12 AM
To: n6kj.kelly@gmail.com; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: tristao 50 ft motorized crank up HELP
Wrong.
Lou Tristao worked for Tri-Ex way back (50-60's?) in Tulare, CA. They
parted ways and Tri-Ex moved to Visalia and Tristao started his own tower
company.
He sold out to Palmer Industries in the early 80's and they never really
got going with the towers and Lou started another tower company. He had
several names, Tower Master, Tristao-Pratt, and then just Tristao. US
Tower took
them over in the mid 80's and made many, many improvements.
Tri-Ex was split up and the crankup up business eventually sold to Wil-Burt
in Ohio, who got out of the Amateur tower business. Karl Tashjian, who was
the engineer at Tri-Ex, started making towers based on Tri-Ex but somewhat
improved, and on a much smaller scale.
Skip, KJ6Y
_Communications Service Co_ (http://members.aol.com/kj6y/skip.html)
818-887-3569
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