[TowerTalk] Homebrew Crank-up

[Jack KZ4USA]

Who cares about resale. Just build it.
Jack
KZ4USA
Bradenton, Florida


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Dievendorff" <dieven at comcast.net>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk at contesting.com>
Cc: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk at contesting.com>; 
"Stan Stockton" <k5go at cycle-24.com>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Homebrew Crank-up


> What's the resale value of a homebrew tower?
> Dick,  K6KR
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:11 PM, "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Christopher Atkins wrote:
>>> Stan,
>>>
>>> Homebrewing a tower especially a crank-up is a dangerous and risky
>>> proposition to say the least.  The ROI and the safety concerns is
>>> not worth the risk. In the end you will be better off buying a
>>> crank up tower. Just my opinion..
>>>
>> Risky, yes without doing the calculations, but one of my goals for
>> years
>> has been to build a crankup and fold over, rotating mast that will
>> go to
>> 60  or 70' and support at least a 30 - 10 log and maybe  a 2-meter
>> beam.
>>
>> OTOH there is always a certain amount of risk with any tower.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger (K8RI)
>>>
>>> Good Luck
>>> --- On Fri, 3/26/10, Stan Stockton <k5go at cycle-24.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Stan Stockton <k5go at cycle-24.com>
>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Homebrew Crank-up
>>> To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
>>> Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 3:00 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone have an ideas regarding rails, rollers, general set-up, etc.
>>> that could be used for about 75 feet of 55G or 65G that would
>>> telescope into about the same length of larger tower (33 inch face,
>>> 3 inch legs), probably using an extra large prop pitch to raise and
>>> lower for 48 hours a few times a year dependent on good weather :-) ?
>>>
>>> Thanks...Stan, K5GO
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