[TowerTalk] guying temporary towers

[Bill MacLane]

Kenny,
We use surplus fiberglass and aluminum poles for field day and I also use several AB-155 A/U surplus aluminum masts.  

Here are some links.

http://www.freewebs.com/workingstiff/500spooldoublebriaddacr.htm

http://www.eham.net/articles/19289

and some limited information:

http://www.freewebs.com/ai4wm/mastinformation.htm


73,
Bill
AI4WM


--- On Sun, 8/10/08, K <kg5ks at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: K <kg5ks at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] guying temporary towers
> To: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>, "Tearlach Sinclair" <dragonsong at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:38 PM
> I would appreciate the plans on any portable tower made out
> of tubing either PVC or pump PIPE.   
> 
>  Thank you
> 73
> Kenny
> KG5KS
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Roger (K8RI) <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>
> To: Tearlach Sinclair <dragonsong at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:13:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] guying temporary towers
> 
> Tearlach Sinclair wrote:
> > IMHO, field day is about emergency communications so
> any set-up that requires 
> > a crane to set up two towers, no matter how they are
> guyed,  is missing the point
> > of emergency communications. 
> Agreed although some clubs do have elaborate emergency
> communications 
> setups on trailers.  Our club doesn't use any thing
> that can't be put up 
> by hand and we try to keep the antennas simple. Those that
> are easy to tune.
> 
> the largest we ever put up was a light duty 40' tower
> with a small, 3L 
> tribander that 4 men could push up. Normally we stick with
> 30' as an 
> arbitrary limit for poles and towers.  This year  our club
> president  
> built a "crank up" mast  out of PVC. It looks
> like a miniature version 
> of the big crank up  poles. Of course this one didn't
> rotate and all it 
> supported was the end of a wire.
> >  For field day, we set up two wire antennas in the
> trees
> >  and a Gap Challenger that was ground mounted.  We got
> out several deep cycle batteries
> > for the radios and later had a small generator that
> helped with the power needs.   We were
> > set-up and running in just an hour.  We operated for
> the entire 24 hours and could have
> > picked up and moved the entire show in that same hour
> should the "emergency" required. I do
> > not understand how it is that tower raising and all
> that fits in with a simulated emergency
> > situation.
> > That's just my thoughts,for what it's worth.
> >
> > Tearlach de w8sco
> >
> >  
> 73
> 
> Roger (K8RI - ARRL Life Member)
> www.rogerhalstead.com
> N833R (World's oldest Debonair)
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