I looked at the Luso150US plus 4.5" dia 5 meter mast in some detail, had
them do the calcs for the antennas I wanted. 2x 4L 40, 2 x 5L 20, 3L 80
which is a fairly serious tower loading! It didn't happen for three
reasons, a used R65 tower and 9 yagis became locally available cheap, I
preferred independent rotators (rings or swing arms) and servicing
concerns with the Luso. So, I went with a Phillystran guyed R65 tower
with K0XG rings. For high wind areas the Luso may be a good choice with
its 1 minute up/down cycle, if the regulators allow that mode of compliance.
In the end the cost difference of Luso vs what I did was small since the
tower was erected professionally (a 20' section with two rings weighed
about 1000#) . The Luso base is a monster, their base plus rebar plus
lots of concrete. As I understand it, Luso ships in a dedicated 2TEU
container and ships everything (except the engineer) in it. Nice slide
show of Luso install: http://www.7163net.com/k8xs/index.html
Flying an engineer from Japan might be cheaper than commercial tower
riggers here.
Grant KZ1W
On 1/3/2017 4:01 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
Luso appears to be a very nice tower but I am not sure that it is only a
few dollars more than the new UST prices. I have read that they require
you to fly their engineer from Japan to your site when installing it.
John KK9A
To: Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase
From: Ed via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Ed <navydude1962@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:12:30 -0800
If you're remotely contemplating a UST, consider a LUSO for just a few
dollars
more!
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