[Towertalk] New Rohn Tower

[K7LXC@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/20/02 5:04:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, w5kp@swbell.net 
writes:

> Now that you mention Rohn, where were they? 

    Where were they? They've never attended Dayton to my knowledge - at least 
not in recent history. They, like lots of other businesses, have suffered a 
downturn in the last year or two and had lots of layoffs. 

    They're really not a marketing kind of company anyway so attending Dayton 
isn't really something they'd do. 

>  Maybe AN scared them off, 

    Scared them off of what? AN makes ONE self-supporting tower to ONE spec. 
Rohn makes MANY different kinds of self-supporting and guyed towers and has a 
whole engineering department to design them for specific applications. 

    AN is one guy who picks up the materials from a machine shop and drives 
them down to the galvanizer's in his pick-up. Rohn has their own galvanizing 
plant. 

>  or they don't give a big rat's behind about ham radio any more, or both. 

    I really don't understand the comment. Because you didn't see them at 
Dayton they lose all their credibility? Believe me, they APPRECIATE their ham 
business.

>  If I
>  hadn't put up my R45 last summer, I'd be ordering a big AN right now - I 
was
>  very impressed with them. 

    45G is a guyed tower and AN is self-supporting - normally not considered 
equivalent structures. (BTW the guys in the Tower Legal Forum at Dayton said 
to use the term "antenna support structure" when talking to the local 
building authorities and governments since 'tower' has a more negative 
connotation.)

    I was also impressed with the AN towers - they are real industrial 
strength. 

>  BTW, K7LXC's talk was informative and entertaining.

    Tnx.

Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH