[TowerTalk] Stuck tower is unstuck!

david jordan wa3gin at erols.com
Wed Jul 7 11:49:02 EDT 2004


IC...well, money well spent indeed.  I guess this is another lesson in 
penny wise pound foolish choices.

73,
dave
wa3gin

Joe wrote:

> All those features are available currently through US Towers.  Just 
> costs money......
>
> 73,
> Joe
> WDØM
>
> At 09:02 AM 7/7/2004, david jordan wrote:
>
>> The Triex tower line has an electric safety switch that prevents 
>> extending the tower past the recommended height.  It also has a 
>> postivie pull-down cable which can be configured to act as a back-up 
>> fail safe to the switch but this would be a last resort that could 
>> lead to component failure of the pull-down system. The electric winch 
>> power cut-off feature goes a long way to help prevent operator 
>> errors.  Perhaps folks should let US TOWERS in on the secret!
>>
>> enjoy,
>> dave
>> wa3gin
>> Happy Owner of a CT-100
>
>
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