[TowerTalk] w2irt's antenna dilemma

[Jim Lux]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: <keith at dutson.net>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] w2irt's antenna dilemma


>
> > You are indeed fortunate to have this sign company to call
> on.  No sign
> > company in my area wanted to offer any service at all.
> >
> > Keith
>
>
> You may need to look harder. It took me a while to find a
> company with a truck capable of going 150 ft and lift what I
> wanted.
>
> Look at all those tall signs along Interstates. Stop at a
> few stores, and ask them who they call for service or
> installation.
>
> We used sign trucks all the time in Ohio to install
> CATV/MATV headend towers. We'd assemble the entire antenna
> system on the ground and pick it up with a sign (boom)
> truck. We did that a few times a week with guyed and unguyed
> towers up to 150 feet. Even down here in rural Georgia I can
> get a truck and we barely have electricity.
>
> 73 Tom

It might be the south... no kidding.. maybe it's the red dirt and heat and
humidity leads to a more laissez faire attitude about doing "non-standard"
things.   A friend was commenting that when a crew came out to replace the
pole transformer behind his house (with a brand new 50 kVA unit... clearly
it's time for him to invest in a big linear: why let that capacity go to
waste) they were from Alabama, and we're in Los Angeles.