If UST was smart, they would give advance warning of a price increase, with an
effective date. Imagine the number of last-minute sales that would generate!
To raise prices overnight, shocking even HRO employees clearly makes no sense.
I'm just glad to have what I already have and am sorry for the hams who do not.
Somebody ought to write a letter to UST and, perhaps even circulate a petition
if there are enough disenfranchised customers.
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 08:43, Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> 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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