[TowerTalk] New self-supporting crank-up and positive crank-down tower

[Dick Flanagan]

At 5:04 PM -0700 5/19/98, John Stucka, Jr. wrote:

>If you were going to purchase a 70 ft. crank-up and positive crank-down
>self supporting tower and qualitity is most important, which one would
>be your ideal?

What antenna load and wind speeds are we talking about?

For "normal" ham applications (whatever that means), I can't think of
anything better than a US Tower HDX-572.  I would also recommend you get
the motor drive as it can be a real chore to put up and down manually.

73, Dick

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Dick Flanagan W6OLD CFII Minden, Nevada DM09db (South of Reno)
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