Once a year is ok too, whatever you want to do I love climbing, and the ham I
do the maintenance for wants it done twice a year so I do it twice a year. I
look for anything that could be a problem, Last year I happen to spot a crack
in the boom to mast clamp on his Hy-Gain 20 meter mono bander. Glad to have
spot that, or the antenna could have come down in a winter storm. I also check
the coax feedlines and other cables, check all the guy clamps and guy cables.
I start at the top and work my way down. > From: petehelder@hotmail.com
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:59:04 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower, rotator and antenna maintenance
>
>
>
> I do maintenance twice a year to two towers, mainly checking for rust spots
> and loose nuts and bolts. sanding the rust spots and respraying them with
> cold galvenize from rustoleum.In the spring and just before the winter sets
> in. W8PD / Pete > From: K7LXC@aol.com
> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:49:23 -0500
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com; kiessig@gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower, rotator and antenna maintenance
> >
> > > How often do you go to the top of your tower and do maintenance on the
> > antenna, rotator, coax, antennas, etc? Just when something breaks? Or more
> > often?
> >
> > In my UP THE TOWER book, there's a chapter on maintenance. Many
> > commercial sites have annual inspections, sometimes mandated by their
> > insurance carrier.
> >
> > > When you get up there, do you have a set routine? Do you look for
> > anything
> > special, other than obviously misplaced wear-and-tear?
> >
> > You want to push and pull on things. You want to put a wrench on some
> > of the nuts and bolts. In a real tower inspection you'll put a wrench to
> > about 10% of the nuts and bolts but for a ham array, I'd put a wrench on
> > everything I can reach. This includes antenna, feedlines, appurtenances,
> > rotators, etc.
> >
> > > Do you go up more often when the tower is new, for reasons other than
> > something being broken or obviously wrong?
> >
> > If everything is operating properly, an annual inspection is plenty.
> >
> > A ham in VE7 with a 3-tower contest station used to have problems of
> > some sort every year. When we started doing an annual inspection, his
> > problems dropped to zero.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve K7LXC
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