[TowerTalk] No concrete for a Rohn tower base

[Charles Mills]

You could try the Aluma series of towers with the MP-2 Mounting post
if pouring concrete isn't an option.

Designed to be sunk in dirt.  Bobcat with a big enough auger bit and
you'll have it sunk in about 3 hours start to finish.

Chuck / W3YNI

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Chet Moore<ChetMoore at cox.net> wrote:
> When I  was KP4EAJ in San Juan, I lived on old Navy Base at Isla Grande.  I
> was not allowed to pour a cement base there.  I used the rohn 25G dirt base
> to hold the 25G foldover tower with one section above the hinge and one
> below the hinge for a total of 60 feet with a TH-6 on top.  I got 40 feet of
> it up myself.  The next day w2gd arrived an put up the rest so he could
> operate in one of the sprints.  It held up through 4 or 5 hurricanes over
> the 4 years I was down there.  When we took the tower down and pulled out
> the dirt base, it looked like new.  It wasn't like I didn't want a cement
> base but when the military says no cement, then CHAMPIONS ADJUST  !! .  I
> was probably lucky but it worked for me
>
> press on regardless
>
>
> Chet N4FX
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> From: <Cqtestk4xs at aol.com>
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> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:25 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] No concrete for a Rohn tower base
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>
>> In a message dated 8/17/2009 9:12:38 PM Greenwich Standard Time,
>> n5xz at earthlink.net writes:
>>
>> No  concrete at all. They guys
>> held the tower up just fine for 8  years.
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>>
>>
>> I hope you were in a very dry climate.  I have seen towers  buried in no
>> concrete in Florida and the bottoms were nicely rotted out,  one so bad
>> the
>> owner could get no one to climb it..   I definitely  wouldn't recommend
>> this
>> for anyone..all in the name of saving the cost of less  than a yard of
>> concrete.  A BIG prime directive violation.
>>
>> Bill KH7XS/K4XS
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Charles L. Mills
Westmoreland Co. ARES EC
Amateur Radio Callsign W3YNI
Email: w3yni1 at gmail.com