I use a 100ft Tri-EX cranker... I prefer to be 20-30 ft away with a long
remote switch cable... standing underneath all that steel gives me the
creeps ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
To: <K7LXC@aol.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>; <larry@w8lig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower Remote Kit (need a solution)
On 2/19/2013 9:14 AM, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
Actually IMO you're better off. In my book, UP THE TOWER, in the
chapter on crank-ups, my advice is to always be watching the tower as
it's
moving because if you're not - you can have a calamity. So the safest
way to
raise and lower the tower is to be at the bottom of the tower and be
ready to
shut things down in case something happens. And it does happen.
Retro-fitting anything to a UST can be problematic.
Exactly right.
I have the UST remote for my tower and just use it to watch from 20 feet
away so I am not standing under the antenna. In your case, just wire a 3
conductor cable in parallel with the SPDT up/down switch
and run that to a toggle switch in a box. Compared to this poor
man's remote, the "official" remote doesn't bring much to the party
except remote limit switch indicators.
Rick N6RK
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