[TowerTalk] COAX on CRANKUP-how to hang

[Patrick Greenlee]

Anyone out there using the KF7P standoffs or similar and raising/lowering 
your tower successfully without observation?
Anyone out there using the KF7P standoffs or similar and have had snagging 
problems while raising and lowering your tower with or without observation 
while the tower was in motion?  If so, what seemed to be the problem?  Was 
it wind induced or otherwise?

I think there are folks out there who routinely raise and lower their towers 
remotely without observation and experience no problems.  It would be great 
to know how they do it.  One of my to be installed towers will be 300 ft or 
so and not always fun.

Patrick AF5CK

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve Dyer
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:56 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] COAX on CRANKUP-how to hang

KF7P makes very nice stand-offs and not too pricey -- especially
compared to the price of the tower, coax, control cables, etc..
www.kf7p.com. I have no pecuniary interest. Just a happy customer.
73,
Steve
W1SRD

> Stand-offs are a high prices accessory...great profit margin!  Like you 
> have had crank-ups for decades. Never had an issue with rotor cables or 
> coax... Subjective opinion of one....YMMV.
>
> 73,
> Dave
> Wa3gin
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> Be Prepared Stay Prepared
>
>> On Oct 30, 2013, at 7:39 AM, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
>>
>> I have owned crank-up towers for close to 40 years...in multiple 
>> locations and using
>> multiple types of crankup towers (Heights, Hy-Gain, US Tower).  I still 
>> own 2 crank-ups.
>>
>> In all cases, I just let the coax and rotor cable "hang down" right along 
>> side of the tower.
>>
>> I never used standoffs or coax arms.  Not sure why they are necessary.
>>
>> Nothing ever got tangled or "hung up" in the tower.  I think that would 
>> be really difficult to do.
>> I mean, why would coax (eg, RG8 type) want to or be able to "decide" to 
>> bend and enter into
>> the tower lattice?  It is already handing from the very top to the very 
>> bottom.  For me, it would
>> take an extraordinary act of nature to "convince" the coax to defy 
>> gravity, bend into a small
>> loop, and "enter" the tower lattice.
>>
>> de Doug KR2Q
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