[TowerTalk] Want Tri Ex T-20 Tower Sections

[Richard W. Ehrhorn (W0ID)]

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From: Richard W. Ehrhorn (W0ID) 
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:26 PM
Subject: Tri Ex T-20 Tower Sections


W4ETO is looking for one or two 20 ft sections of Tri-Ex T-20 tower. 

For ETO/ALPHA's club station in Canon City, CO, in '87 we put up 120' of T-20 and a big HyGain LP. But nobody had time to operate. 

In 1989 I reactivated my personal station W4ETO at 10,650'  - on the Continental Divide above Breckenridge, CO. Got the call W0ID in 1996.. 

Despite being "2 miles high" in a dense lodgepole forest, that QTH was in a "no antennas" neighborhood. Luckily the adjacent old gold mining claim wan't subject to covenants and I was able to secure on it a perpetual easement for an 80-90' tower. The trees screened the tower from view except from miles away...I never had an tower or TVI complaint in 17 years of DXing & contesting, but was limited to 90' height.

We moved to the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains of VA in '07. Bought several beautiful acres of rolling pasteur & forest (elevation 0.2 miles!) Now, finally, W4ETO is ready to get back on the air w/beams a little higher ~{;-)

Sure would appreciate a note to w4eto at verizon.net if anybody knows where I can find another section or two of T-20 in excellent or very good shape.  

Thanks, guys. 

73,

Dick   W4ETO/W0ID