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Re: [TowerTalk] help identifying a tower

To: "Cameron" <ccrum@dot11net.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] help identifying a tower
From: ersmar@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:28:23 +0000
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Cameron:

     It could be a Rohn/Spaulding BX model:  
http://www.antennasystems.com/bx2.html .  Rohn bought the design from Spaulding 
approximately a while ago.  

     If you determine that your tower is, in fact, a BX model or another from 
within the same family (like the HDBX), you should know that Rohn had always 
cautioned against installing an antenna with a boom longer than ten feet atop 
the tower.  The reason being (we here on TT believe) is that the torsion from 
longer booms is enough to pop the center rivets on the cross beams and have the 
tower come tumbling down on you.

     Caveat Amateur.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Cameron" <ccrum@dot11net.com>
> I just came into posession of a tower and need some help identifying it. It 
> is a 
> self support style with about 8ft sections. The cross members are an X style 
> with either a rivet or carriage bolt through the middle of the X. The legs 
> are 
> "angle iron" kind of like a Trylon, but the corners are "flanged"  instad of 
> just smooth angles like the Trylons. I'm going to get it tomarrow and will 
> have 
> some more details, but does anyone know what this could be?
> 
> Cameron
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