Jim
Off topic, but hope you are safely evacuated from the CZU lightning complex
wildfire.
Craig WA6OXK
> On Aug 19, 2020, at 15:32, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 8/19/2020 11:29 AM, Randy Farmer wrote:
>> I really want to go with a tower that allows me to maintain the antennas and
>> rotator from ground level.
>
> That's one approach, but I've been well served by skilled ham climbers who
> climb safely and know far more than I do rigging and wiring antennas, and I'd
> bet that what I've paid them over the years is a lot less that the fold-over
> project that you're envisioning that involves building a road!
>
> For the last few years, Hector Garcia, XE2K/AD6D has been doing my work, and
> I just hired a local, K3RRY, to rig a cell phone repeater. Hector is based in
> Yuma, AZ, and travels extensively. The massive W7RN station is one of his
> clients. As part of NCCC ground crews, I've watched expert work by K7LXC and
> K7NV. Posting here will surely yield more recommendations.
>
> BTW -- I also hire tree climbers to rig and maintain the high wires in my
> trees. NI6T gave me good advice by repeating his mistake of topping a
> redwood, clamping a section of Rohn 25 to it, and mounting HF Yagis to the
> the tower section. The problem, he noted, was that while the tree was free,
> the guys he could hire to climb it had no clue about what to do when the got
> up there, as to good tower climbers who nearly always do,
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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