[TowerTalk] 300 ft tower conundrum

[Michael J. Castellano]

My humble opinion...

go with shorter towers in a better location.  I have two 300 footers, and if it were not for the fact that my company owns them (I'm in the tower business), I would never put them up for ham radio.

The initial expense of building and strobing them is high, and the ongoing costs to monitor them (alarm company that produces a printed record just in case...) And the neighborhood screaming about height and lighting is horrendous in most areas. (Even though the lighting is  federally required).

I would go with a bunch of towers UNDER 200, you won't notice the difference in almost all cases, and unless you live on top of an airport, you just saved a lot of $$ and grief about lighting... and of course, expensive steel...

This summer, my 160m dipoles and slopers are coming off the towers...just isn't worth the hassle... It can all be done with a quad array of ground mounted 1/4 wave verticals...

no matter what you do, the best of success with the project... hope to hear a strapping signal on the bands.

73!

Mike KM1R
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