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Re: [TowerTalk] Homebrew freestanding mast

To: "tom.dixon" <tom.dixon@xtra.co.nz>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Homebrew freestanding mast
From: "Tower (K8RI)" <tower@rogerhalstead.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:21:56 -0400
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I'd like to see a crank up design rather than a fold over.
Friend of mine, (K8KNY) had one of these fold overs about 20 years ago at
Forrest Hill Michigan.  Almost identiacal excep he used concrete instead of
the sand fill.


Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com


> Same system as mine except I use a 44 gallon fill of water to rasie and
> lower my mast. If anyone wants I will take some pics for them.
>
> Tom Dixon
> zl2hgr@xtra.co.nz
> IRLP 6931
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Beltran
> Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 8:44 a.m.
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Homebrew freestanding mast
>
>
>
>
> > My email program didn't like the spaces in your URL.  Here is a fixed
> > one if anyone else has the same problems I did.
> >
> > http://www.iol.ie/~bravo/Well%20Casing%20Tower.htm
> >
> > Looks interesting.  Is that what you are using on your quad?  Do you
> > guy it?
> >
> I've seen this in the antenna book (approximately 1969) and some of the
> handbooks.  I am wondering why the sand instead of sinking the casing
> directly in concrete?  Tom W6EIJ
>
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