[TowerTalk] help identifying a tower

[Cameron]

Well I got the tower today and it is a DMX tower. It looks like I have 
sections 8 through 4 which is good because I can always add to the top. I'll 
have to get a new section 8 as they cut the legs to get this out of the 
ground. I'm glad I wasn't the one climbing this thing when it was up....the 
foundation looked like a round hole just big enough to get the legs in. I'm 
not sure why they didn't just unbolt the thing, but when they cut it, they 
sawed off about two feet off the bottom section. It's possible that is all 
that was in the ground. It wouldn't surprise me.

Anyone have a bottom section for one of these?

Cameron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ersmar at comcast.net>
To: "Cameron" <ccrum at dot11net.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] help identifying a tower


> Cameron:
>
>     It could be a Rohn/Spaulding BX model: 
> http://www.antennasystems.com/bx2.html .  Rohn bought the design from 
> Spaulding approximately a while ago.
>
>     If you determine that your tower is, in fact, a BX model or another 
> from within the same family (like the HDBX), you should know that Rohn had 
> always cautioned against installing an antenna with a boom longer than ten 
> feet atop the tower.  The reason being (we here on TT believe) is that the 
> torsion from longer booms is enough to pop the center rivets on the cross 
> beams and have the tower come tumbling down on you.
>
>     Caveat Amateur.
>
> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Cameron" <ccrum at dot11net.com>
>> I just came into posession of a tower and need some help identifying it. 
>> It is a
>> self support style with about 8ft sections. The cross members are an X 
>> style
>> with either a rivet or carriage bolt through the middle of the X. The 
>> legs are
>> "angle iron" kind of like a Trylon, but the corners are "flanged"  instad 
>> of
>> just smooth angles like the Trylons. I'm going to get it tomarrow and 
>> will have
>> some more details, but does anyone know what this could be?
>>
>> Cameron
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