[TowerTalk] Tower concerns
Joe Subich, K4IK
w8ik@subich.com
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:47:13 -0500
> Seems to me that the gist of all this is that those of us who live in
> Florida or on the Gulf coast can't have an antenna larger than a rubber
> duckie on top of any reasonably tall tower. I see all these ads for
> towers with X number of square feet of antenna at 50 mph! What a joke.
How true ... I vividly remember a phone conversation with a tower vendor
(and regular advertiser on TowerTalk) in which I asked for 100 MPH specs
on his towers (both extended and retracted). He completely refused to
provide the information unless I paid for a custom engineering study
(several hundred dollars for each tower I was considering)!
73,
... Joe, K4IK (ex-W8IK, AD8I)
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