[TowerTalk] When was the first tower & beam used?

[wa3afs at inav.net]

Although I have no documentation (or any other proof), I would not be surprised if many of the first 'towers' were 
windmill towers.  Pretty strong and must not have been too expensive as many farms were using them.

73
  --Bruce

On 12 Sep 2006 at 19:09, Terry Gerdes wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> I have copies of a few pages from the Basset Handbook of Rotary Beam Design 
> for 1939.  The Bassett folks had a series of commercial products like a 4 
> element 20 meter antenna with a rotor for $121.  The boom was not round but 
> looks more like a ladder.
> 
> They also had some interesting tower sections that were made of wood.   For 
> $88, you could purchase a 36 foot wood tower that was 3 feet square at the 
> bottom and 15 inches square at the top.  Each tower section was 6 foot in 
> length.
> 
> I'm also interested in other options on the market from this era.
> 
> 73 Terry - AB5K
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 6:30 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] When was the first tower & beam used?
> 
> 
> > here's a real tower question...
> >
> > When did hams start to use a directive antenna on a tower with a
> > rotator? I'm thinking after the 40s.  The Yagi wasn't invented til
> > the late 20s, and wasn't widely known until after the war.  The W8JK
> > was probably around the same time.  The cubical quad was in 1939 at
> > HCJB, but that was probably not rotatable.
> >
> > Perhaps about the same time as LPDAs were used for TV.
> >
> > Jim, W6RMK
> >
> >
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