Our club managed to get a grant to purchase a US Tower light weight crankup
and built our own trailer based on a 2 axle boat trailer. There is an
onboard 3KW generator, hydraulics to lift the tower to vertical & an
electric winch to raise it. We have an A-3 tribander that is color coded
with colored electrical tape for easy assembly & carried in large plastic
pipes attached to the trailer. Also a dual band vhf/uhf vertical for
operation there. With side arms to hang dipoles for the lower bands we are
in business very quickly. Getting the tents up for Field Day is a bigger
job than setting up the tower.
If you are looking for something more portable than this, take a look at
the towers from Force 12. Light weight aluminum crankups. They looked a
little to light weight for what we wanted (and I believe cost more too).
At 09:30 PM 7/27/04, Bryan wrote:
Our local amateur club is working on putting together a portable emergency
communications package that can be used in case of local
emergency. Everything has gone together very well except we are having
problems putting together some type of support for a HyGain TH-3 triband
beam.
We are trying to keep the size of the entire communications package down
to where it will fit in the back of a Suburban-Explorer type SUV or a
pickup. We need to come up with some highly portable way of
supporting the TH-3 up 30-40 feet that could meet this criteria if
possible. I would appreciate hearing from the tower guru's about ideas on
how to handle this situation.
As a possible alternative, we have considered some type of trailer mounted
tower system that could
easily be hauled to a location and erected at the site by a couple of
people EASILY. Any ideas or
suggestions about this possibility would also be appreciated. Portability
and ease of quick erection
are the keys to either of these options.....
Thanks
Bryan W5KFT
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