[TowerTalk] ROOF MOUNT TOWERS

[Eric Rosenberg]

I live in the city (Washington, DC) and have a 6 footer on my roof 
supporting a Force 12 C3-SS quite easily.  I can email you pictures, if 
you like.

It isn't guyed, and was relatively easy to put up (although my roof is 
steep and the the wx here is windy/cool or stifling hot!).  Been up for 
almost 10 years.

Foot-by-foot roof towers aren't cheap, but considering that I can't put 
up a tower, it's a great solution.

There used to be lots of variations in roof towers -- although today 
you have but two choices here in the USA (Glen Martin Engineering and 
IIX).
Mine is Japanese -- made by Alinco.  I've had/used Create Design 
(Japanese) for work projects, and have another Japanese one in my 
garage.  All are 9 foot or smaller "quadpods" that don't need 
guying.  The one I have in the garage is amost 12 ft tall and looks 
like a quadpod with a tower section mounted on top.  It needs to be 
guyed, but then again, it's very beefy.

Email me if you have any questions or pictures.

73, Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC


At 11:46 PM 1/22/04 -0500, you wrote:

>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:44:12 EST
>From: K7LXC at aol.com
>To: davarc at premier1.net, towertalk at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] ROOF MOUNT TOWERS
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>In a message dated 1/22/04 1:53:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>davarc at premier1.net writes:
>
> > Can any body tell me anything about roof mounted towers??  Iam 
> think of
> > getting me one Iam going to put a beam on it and would like to know 
> more
> > informaton how good are they.
>
>     They're a pretty nifty and relatively inexpensive way to get some 
> beams up.
>
> >  Do they require any guying??
>
>     They're freestanding.
>
> >  and with the beam mounted over the roof would that affect it any
>
>     A bunch of beam performance is related to height. A roof mounted 
> antenna
>at 30 feet won't be as good as the same beam up 70 feet. Or a hundred 
>feet.
>OTOH you can work a lot of stuff and have a lot of fun with a modest
>installation like this.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve     K7LXC
>TOWER TECH -
>Professional tower services for commercial and amateur
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:59:05 -0800
>From: "Dave Hough, W7GK" <w7gk at qsl.net>
>To: "Dave A" <davarc at premier1.net>
>Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] ROOF MOUNT TOWERS
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>Used 30' of Universal aluminum tower sections on the roof of my Las =
>Vegas house and had a Cushcraft X7 on it. http://www.qsl.net/w7gk/=20
>
>Worked great. Built a saddle out of 4"x 6" planks to set on the roof =
>peak then braced the roof to distribute the load onto the interior =
>framing. On top of the saddle put a Universal flatroof mount and guyed 
>=
>the tower. That set up was hit by high winds and many dust devils and 
>=
>never flinched.=20
>
>Dave, W7GK
>Elko, NV