[TowerTalk] How to Level a Crank-up?

[Gene Fuller]

On a calm day, you could hang a string, with a small weight on the end, from 
the top of each tower leg.    Gene / W2LU


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jones" <n6sj at earthlink.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:42 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] How to Level a Crank-up?


>I want to level my new US Tower HDX-589.  I put a 4' carpenter's level on
> all three legs of the base section and have levelled them.  This is all US
> Tower recommends.
>
> Is there anything more I can do?  I have heard of using two theodolytes 
> with
> it fully extended.  But I figure the sections must lean a bit due to the
> clearances that allow them to slide past each other.  I don't want to tilt
> the bottom section to compensate for that lean, since different antenna
> loads or wind loads will probably make it lean different directions.
>
> With the bottom section leveled, am I done?
>
> 73,
> Steve
> N6SJ
>
>
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