[TowerTalk] Rohn HDBX 49' Tower

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I had one in my previous PA location for 4 years, took it town, moved to  
VA, reinstalled it section by section with a make shift gin pole, had hygain  
tri-bander, 6-el wide spaced 6m, 2m cushcfaft crossfire, topped by 2m 
cushcraft  ringo plus.  It was up for 32 years in VA until my neglect of the 
tower  legs which got weak with rust and it came down in Isabel.
 
73's Joe Palsa

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In a message dated 12/11/2011 10:34:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
wa3gin at comcast.net writes:

Anyone  want to see pics of how we built this tower vertical with a gin 
pole, 
one  section at a time just send me an email.

They go up various ways but  one can use a gin pole, not just a crane, but 
that certainly would be  faster and more fun!

This tower had a 3E Full Size Telrex 20m  mono-bander, 4E on 15m and 5E on 
10m for many years.  It currently  support a Cushcraft A3, 8E on 2m.  Next 
year it will host a HYGAIN  Explorer 14/7MHz add-on kit.

The tower is a good value for the price  whether you use it for dipoles, 
yagi 
antennas, or a CB ground plane  ;-)

73,
Dave
wa3gin
----- Original Message ----- 
From:  "Gordon Beattie" <w2ttt at att.net>
To: "W2RU - Bud Hippisley"  <W2RU at frontiernet.net>; "Kelley Shaddrick"  
<kshaddrick at jetup.net>
Cc:  <Towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:20  PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rohn HDBX 49' Tower


> These  towers need to be walked up or raised and maintained with a crane 
or 
>  a platform.  I had one to hold up dipoles and other light antennas.   
They 
> stink to climb too!
>
> Sent from my Motorola ATRIX™  4G on AT&T
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: W2RU -  Bud Hippisley <W2RU at frontiernet.net>
> To: Kelley Shaddrick  <kshaddrick at jetup.net>
> Cc: Towertalk at contesting.com
>  Sent: 2011 Dec, Mon, 12 03:14:34 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk]  Rohn HDBX 49' Tower
>
> I weight 165 and I climbed one ONCE to  help a friend of mine take his 
> beams off it.  I found it  horribly uncomfortable (no horizontal surfaces 
> to stand on, and the  cross braces cut into your boots and feet).  
Reaching 
> around the  lower part of the tower to connect the restraining belt 
> (whatever  it's called) for my harness was impossible.  IMHO, "safe" 
>  climbing of an HDBX tower is an oxymoron, no matter what your  weight.
>
> Bud, W2RU
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2011, at  10:01 PM, Kelley Shaddrick wrote:
>
>>
>> There have  been lots of postings in the Rohn HDBX tower asking about
>> concrete  requirements, windloads, and so on. I'm wondering, Does anyone 
>>  have
>> any idea how large a person can climd one of these towers?  Can a 300 
>> pound
>> person climb one of these towers  safely? A 250 pound person? Is there 
any
>> data on  this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kelley -  W0RK
>
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