[TowerTalk] US Tower Remote Kit (need a solution)

[David Jordan]

I use a 100ft Tri-EX cranker... I prefer to be 20-30 ft away with a long 
remote switch cable... standing underneath all that steel gives me the 
creeps ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
To: <K7LXC at aol.com>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>; <larry at w8lig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower Remote Kit (need a solution)


>
>
> On 2/19/2013 9:14 AM, K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
>
>>      Actually IMO you're better off. In my book, UP THE  TOWER, in the
>> chapter on crank-ups, my advice is to always be watching the tower  as 
>> it's
>> moving because if you're not - you can have a calamity. So the safest 
>> way to
>> raise and lower the tower is to be at the bottom of the tower and be 
>> ready to
>> shut things down in case something happens. And it does happen.
>>
>>      Retro-fitting anything to a UST can be  problematic.
>
> Exactly right.
>
> I have the UST remote for my tower and just use it to watch from 20 feet 
> away so I am not standing under the antenna.  In your case, just wire a 3 
> conductor cable in parallel with the SPDT up/down switch
> and run that to a toggle switch in a box.  Compared to this poor
> man's remote, the "official" remote doesn't bring much to the party
> except remote limit switch indicators.
>
> Rick N6RK
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