Steve,
I mounted a Tic-Ring on a US Tower before right at the end of the 2nd last
upper section and it lasted just fine. I think a good habit of a crank-up tower
owner with "substantial" load on it, would be to monitor weather and have it
cranked down if something bad is on the horizon.... I only use motorized
towers, so to crank it up or down when not in use is fairly easy.
My problem with the Tic-Rings were lack of customer support, so I am exploring
other avenues. Needless to say, I am well aware of the load limits on my
towers, so I am approaching this with caution, hence my post.
I now live in Northern MN, and since I mostly operate weekends, it is fairly
easy to press a button to crank the tower up and down again if I do not plan on
playing radio for a few days.
I am afraid I share the same concerns with the weight of the much heavier K0XG
ring, and option B would be an additional crank-up to carry the rest of the
antennas.
In my opinion a crank-up is NOT a substitution for a Guyed tower, and you have
to live with it's limitations. However, for my current operating habits, and
all the cussing I did climbing up my Rohn 55G back in TX to remove Tic-Ring
motors and replace bad potentiometers, this seems like a much nicer idea for
the amount of time I have for my hobby at present...
Thanks for your comments / suggestions and for this reflector!
KR5DX
PS: That is why we do have insurance and pay the outrageous premiums, right?
From: K7LXC@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:17 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com ; kr5dx@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] K0XG Orbital Rotor on US Tower HDX589
In a message dated 10/12/2011 8:33:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> Anyone out there with this configuration or mounted one of these Orbital
rotors (K0XG) on a crank-up before? I would like to exchange ideas as this is
my plan.
Where are you proposing to mount it? I'd say the only place you could
mount it feasibly is on the bottom section. Any other place and the added
weight of this brute sidemount will exceed the capacity of the tower
immediately even with no antenna on it. .
Montgomery County is an 85 MPH windspeed zone and it's tough getting any
crank-up with much capacity over 70 MPH.
If you proceed with this plan, be sure to keep your homeowner's insurance
paid up because you're going to need it.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
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