[TowerTalk] Ways to mount and insulate a tall vertical ???

[Alan Beagley]

Wouldn't it be simpler (and cheaper, and safer?) to shunt-feed the tower?

Alan AB2OS


On 02/06/04 08:22 am Snowden, Douglas RICVAMC put fingers to keyboard 
and launched the following message into cyberspace:

> I have several sections of alumunum tower (Universal tower) that I plan
> on putting up as a 40/80 and maybe 160m vertical and plan on making it
> around 90 ft, including the aluminum tubing sticking out of the top.
> I would like to mount it insulated but an struggling deciding how to
> mount it insulated.  I have heard that pressure treated lumber tends to
> have too much moisture to use.  I have a couple of pieces of solid
> phenolic tubing one inch diameter.  Any ideas?  Something available
> from the hardware store?  The legs are about 1 inch diameter.