K7ZV has one of them with a 3el 80M yagi on it. They're 130' tall. I asked
Bruce at US Towers about them last year at the Visalia DX Convention. He
seemed more than willing to make another one for about $65K. If I win the
lottery, I'm ordering one the very next day.
73,
Clay W7CE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Winkis" <kc4pe@mindspring.com>
To: <K7LXC@aol.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>; <davidjw@cinci.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tall crank-up tower post?
> If I remember correctly...they were 125 foot high....a real large
> wind load...Posie pull up/down.....cost somewhere around 25 thousand
> plus ship/install....Think 5 guys ordered as a package in order to
> get the deal...
>
> -Bill
>
>
> At 03:34 PM 3/1/2009, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 3/1/2009 12:01:34 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>>towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
>>
>> > Searched unsuccessfully for a post within the last 2 years (I think)
>>regarding 5 specially-built 100-foot-plus crank-ups with large wind-load
>>capacity fully-extended. Any help out there, please?
>>
>>
>> Sure. US Towers made one production run some years ago of some real
>>brute big expensive towers. I don't know if they're interested in
>>making another
>>batch.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Steve K7LXC
>>TOWER TECH
>>
>>
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