[TowerTalk] Need: Tri-Ex T-588 eng'd drawing

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Tom,

I do not have engineering specs for the Tri-EX T-588, but I do have 6 pages out of the 1971 catalog that you can download here:  http://tinyurl.com/og7j3

Five files are 1.5-Mb each, and Tri-EX-04.doc is 4.5-Mb because it has two photos. The downloads may take some time, especially if you are on dial-up.

73 de Bob - K0RC

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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:02:10 -0700
From: "tom scott " <trscott at sterling.net>
Subject: [TowerTalk] Need: Tri-Ex T-588 eng'd drawing
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I made this request before and got some info, which I very much appreciate, but a friend advised me to re-post this request with more explanation of the good cause it is in support of. 

I am on the board of trustees of a local Christian classical K-12 school (www.heritagechristian.com) which has won an FCC license to build a low power FM radio station. 

With a great deal of volunteer work and donated resources we are building a broadcast/recording studio that will give our students the opportunity operate an FM broadcast radio station and work in a near-professional grade broadcast and recording studio. We are designing the studio with full accoustics, and three sound isolated studios, a large performance studio, a smaller talk-show studio, and a 1-2 person booth. 

The Tri-Ex T-588 was made available to us by a local ham with a critical medical condition. It is our hope to erect this tower (with full guying) on top of a large concrete tilt-up building to support a circularly-polarized FM broadcast antenna about 100' in the air. This seems like a good use for a lightweight tower like this. 

Being that we are a school, the local city building and safety commission takes our building permits and inspections very seriously (as well they should), so I am sure I will need an engineered drawing of the T-588 to be part of our permit application. I have gotten specs like weight and wind load in emails, but I am really hoping someone out there has the original Tri-Ex engineered drawing for the T-588. Otherwise we may have to forgo use of this tower and keep looking.

Thanks very much!

- Tom Scott
KD7DMH