[TowerTalk] Tower in the attic!

[Gary McDuffie, Sr.]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:47:16 -0500, Mills, Chuck wrote:

> There is a guy in the Pittsburgh area (or club? not sure...) who appears to
> have done exactly that.  I thought it was just ground mounted behind the
> house but it is indeed coming out of the roof.

Looked at the article last night (but didn't read it yet).  What am I
missing?  It would appear that the guy wasted a section of tower.  Why
not put the rotor on the attic floor, where the base of the tower is
anchored, and run the same mast through the roof in the same manner?
The pipe he goes through in the roof will act as the bearing to take
side load, and even that can be beefed up by putting a bearing on the
boards on the inside of the roof.

A mast coming out of the roof with an in-the-house rotor is nothing new.
Check out QST archives, and I think even the Handbook has had something
on this in years past.  I remember one such picture where the mast came
right down into the shack with Armstrong Rotor handles on it.  The hell
with your expensive rotors!  ;o)

Gary
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