[TowerTalk] Tower concerns

[Dave Armbrust]

Steve,

Stop and think about what you are saying.  You seem to be stating that this
can be done in a couple of hours!   For this two hour service Rohn charges
$3,000 plus $300 per hour or approximately $3,600.  That is $1,800 per hour!
Also bear in mind that this same engineer is not going to try to give you
the best structure he can for the money.  He is going to want to over
engineer this as much as is possible for a whole verities of reasons.

Implying hams are cheap and are looking for something for nothing is a cheap
shot!

73--
Dave Armbrust - AE4MR
ARRL WCF Section Manager
(941)378-1701 Fax: (941)929-0040


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of K7LXC@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:00 AM
> To: w8ik@subich.com; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower concerns
>
>
> In a message dated 1/15/01 4:48:24 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> w8ik@subich.com
> writes:
>
> > How true ... I vividly remember a phone conversation with a
> tower vendor
> >  (and regular advertiser on TowerTalk)
>
>     Actually we don't have any advertisers, regular or otherwise.
> Business
> owners who are TowerTalk subscribers are encouraged to post product and
> service related info of interest to the rest of us.
>
> >  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)!
> >
>     DUH! What's your point? Of course running calculations for
> anything other
> than minimum brochure specs is going to cost money - they just don't have
> them sitting around in a folder. Windspeeds, exposure and loads vary with
> each installation so they have to be calculated with that in mind. A
> Professional Engineer has to sit down and spend an hour or two
> doing it and
> these people don't come cheap.
>
>     Being insulted when you want something for nothing and don't
> get it is a
> typical ham reaction.
>
> Cheers,    Steve    K7LXC
> Tower Tech
>
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