[TowerTalk] Need help with tower id and price

Jim Pruitt wa7duy at charter.net
Tue Oct 7 02:25:42 EDT 2014


I have been asked to help the daughter of a silent key (W7ZZV) liquidate her father's gear.  I have some pictures of the tower at:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w2o5eeo7l6uwos3/AAAfQZRvgBewZKgRWMVbVi96a?dl=0
of a tower that says "Short Bott 40) at the bottom.  The tower is not tubular but uses heavy sheetmetal and appears to be about 25ft tall (as a guess).  It currently has a commercial vhf/uhf JPole on it.

Can someone help me with a value for the tower and where it might be listed?

The silent key also had a CDE AR22 (tv) rotor and control head that just came back from Norm the rotor doctor.  The silent key had a tag on the rotor that said it should be worth $50.  I suspect he spent that much getting it fixed.  Can someone give me an idea what that rotor with control head and some 4 conductor cable would be worth?

He also had what appears to be a 5 element Radio Shack TV antenna that has been converted to vhf ham band per an article in one of the magazines.  There is also a push up mast that is 2 section.

Thank you for your help.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY


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