I have a second track on another face of the tower. The winch is at the
bottom of the track. My high antenna is on a track that is 70 ft and the
lower antena is on a 40 ft track (I had some spare pieces of track). They
are 2 independent Hazers.
Howard..K2HK
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From: "WW3S" <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
I had that bright idea today on the way to work. I thought about a stack and
wondered how I could get one up about 35' with my upper one on the hazer at
55' then I thought, how about another hazer. How did you do it? Are the
pulleys on the top on different sides of the tower or the same? How about
the winches?
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> John,
> I have such a device.
> Check 'Glen Martin Engineering', http://www.glenmartin.com/. They make an
> apparatus called a Hazer that rides on a track and allows raising and
> lowering of the antenna. Lowering or raising necessitates dropping of guy
> wires to allow passage and then reattaching. There is some degree of
> annoyance with such a procedure but does make for much easier service
once
> done. It is surprising how adept one becomes at this chore over time.
One
> more disadvantage, makes it difficult to stack more than one antenna if
not
> on the same mast. I have actually succeeded in stacking 2 antennas both
on
> Hazers on the same tower.
> Howard..K2HK
>
>
> From: Cleeve
> Subject: [Towertalk] Antenna maintenance
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:02:44 +0000
>
> I recently visited one of the very well equipped UK hams, who has a
> large acreage and several tall self supporting towers, and one guyed
> tower at 110 feet.
> It occurred to me, that maintenance of yagis etc. on such a tower could
> prove to be difficult as one gets older, and less inclined to climb. My
> question is, are there any mechanical designs, collars, tilting cradles
> etc. which could be used, to support the antenna / rotor etc. which is
> hauled up such a tower, for use, and then lowered down for maintenance,
> and if there is, how do you avoid antenna entanglement with the tower
> support guys. Finaly, if it does exist, then where is the design
> information found. regards, John Cleeve. G3JVC.
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