[TowerTalk] Really light tower suggestions.

[Don Havlicek]

Dan,
Now that most cities and towns have cable and/or satellite TV service in 
the majority of homes, find someone with a TV-tower that isn't being 
used for TV and tell them you'll remove that monstrosity for free!  When 
you get it home, clean it up, put new bolts/nuts on it, paint it if you 
wish, and that should be sufficient for your Moxon.
Don
N8DE

Dan Zimmerman N3OX wrote:

>I built a 20m Moxon Rectangle out of fiberglass fishing poles and wire
>and had a plan to put it on one of those 30 foot push up masts with
>guys and ground-stake style anchors as a semi-temporary installation,
>but Lowes ran out of them and in the interim I realized it would be
>easier to put up something stiffer anyway.  I looked at some photos of
>others' Moxon installations on the channel master mast, and saw that
>they had a little bit of a buckling problem.
>
>What fills the gap between the Channel Master push up masts and say
>Rohn 20, if anything?
>
>I'm thinking something like 6" or 8" face, extremely light duty stuff.
> The lighter in weight the better.  The Moxon is really, really light,
>maybe 5 pounds and windload is probably not more than a big TV antenna
>due to the tapered spreaders (1 inch at the hub, 1/4" at the tips).
>
>I'm basically looking for the lightest and cheapest three-leg tower
>sections that anyone makes.
>
>Dan
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