[TowerTalk] first post

[Bruce]

Thanks to everyone that responded. I might be getting ahead of myself as 
we have not even decided on which property to purchase yet. Let me 
decide on that, I guess I am just excited that there are no deed 
restrictions, the town has no enforcement and the county only cares 
about buildings. What could be better? I have had an MA-40 crank up that 
I purchased used in 1994 and it has been working great all these years. 
I even bought the Ham IV from the guy with the tower and it is still 
working. Might be nice for a second array. XYL would not care about 
concrete in the ground, not a problem, makes less grass for me to mow. 
When we decide on the property I will get back to the list. My antennas 
and crank up tower have gone through 2 hurricanes with no problems. 
Well, my 40m dipole on the C4 is not working for some reason, but that I 
think might be a coax problem.

As some have said, do I have the rotating space, not sure yet or space 
for the guys. Do I want the tower so it falls completely on my property? 
Will see. That's one reason I get million dollar umbrella insurance on 
my policies so that if something really stupid happens it covers over my 
regular insurance limits. Would not want to slice a neighbors house in 
half.

73...bruce

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Bruce Paige, KK5DO
                      
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