[TowerTalk] Freestanding tower, narrow city lot

[Dave LaBat]

Not hard at all. A gin pole, a ground crew,  a nice day, it is sort of fun 
and very fulfilling to see a tower go up step by step, with Aluma tower, it 
is really quite easy, nothing like wrestling with Rohn 55 at 100 feet in the 
air!

Aluma is a little hard to get use to thought, it moves more than steel!

Good luck,

73, Dave NT6AA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benson" <btw at fastmail.us>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:42 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Freestanding tower, narrow city lot


> I'm interested in putting up a freestanding aluminum tower in my small
> back yard. Our lot is a narrow one; the main house is toward the front
> of the lot, and there is a detached two-story garage apartment at the
> back of the lot. Where I want the tower is the slightly sloped grassy
> yard area between the two buildings. My preference is the Universal
> 12-40. Question: since there is not room to assemble the tower and
> antennas on the ground and push the whole thing up, how difficult is it
> for an experienced tower person (obviously not me!) to erect the tower
> piece by piece, and install a hex-beam on the top? I understand that
> this tower model is overkill for a hexbeam, but I want the tower to be
> able to support larger/more antennae in the future.
>
> Benson, NE4W
> radioactivestyle.com
>
>
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