If it is good shape, meets your load requirements and you don't need an
engineering effort to get permission to put it up, go for it!
The top section is the weakest like - don't overload it with antenna or wind
and lower the antenna in a wind storm if you have any doubt. You should
enjoy it for many years.
Have fun!
Mickey N4MB
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Lee Buller <k0wa@swbell.net> wrote:
>
> I have a chance to pick up a W-51 Triex tower in pretty good shape. I
> wonder if
> anyone has any thoughts...warnings...caveats...or musings about this tower.
> This is my first crank-up tower....but hardly my first tower.
>
> Lee
> K0WA
> http://home.swbell.net/k0wa
>
>
>
> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you
> don't
> have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't
> find any
> Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is
> Common
> Sense divine?
>
> Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my
> mind.
> - John W. (Kansas)
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
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I will learn.” Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.
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