[TowerTalk] Portable tower info

[Jim Rhodes]

Our club managed to get a grant to purchase a US Tower light weight crankup 
and built our own trailer based on a 2 axle boat trailer. There is an 
onboard 3KW generator, hydraulics to lift the tower to vertical & an 
electric winch to raise it. We have an A-3 tribander that is color coded 
with colored electrical tape for easy assembly & carried in large plastic 
pipes attached to the trailer. Also a dual band vhf/uhf vertical for 
operation there. With side arms to hang dipoles for the lower bands we are 
in business very quickly. Getting the tents up for Field Day is a bigger 
job than setting up the tower.

If you are looking for something more portable than this, take a look at 
the towers from Force 12. Light weight aluminum crankups. They looked a 
little to light weight for what we wanted (and I believe cost more too).


At 09:30 PM 7/27/04, Bryan wrote:
>Our local amateur club is working on putting together a portable emergency 
>communications package that can be used in case of local 
>emergency.  Everything has gone together very well except we are having 
>problems putting together some type of support for a HyGain TH-3 triband 
>beam.
>
>We are trying to keep the size of the entire communications package down 
>to where it will fit in the back of a Suburban-Explorer type SUV or a 
>pickup.  We need to come up with some highly portable way of
>supporting the TH-3 up 30-40 feet that could meet this criteria if 
>possible. I would appreciate hearing from the tower guru's about ideas on 
>how to handle this situation.
>
>As a possible alternative, we have considered some type of trailer mounted 
>tower system that could
>easily be hauled to a location and erected at the site by a couple of 
>people EASILY.  Any ideas or
>suggestions about this possibility would also be appreciated. Portability 
>and ease of quick erection
>are the keys to either of these options.....
>
>Thanks
>
>Bryan W5KFT
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Jim Rhodes K0XU
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