[TowerTalk] Climbing mast

[john at kk9a.com]

Years ago, I had a Telrex rotator that the mast slid though. It was easy
to unclamp the bracket and slide the mast down with a come-a-long.  Now I
have a medium prop pitch motor and I would not want to remove it unless
absolutely necessary, not to mention the job of unbolting the lower
antenna and boom supports.

John KK9A


To:	<towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject:	Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing mast
From:	"Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net>
Reply-to:	sawyered at earthlink.net
Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:11:00 -0500



Personally, I have found that I can pull the rotor and drop the mast down
with a ?come a long? to a serviceable height of 5 ft (allowing me to at
least stand on top of the tower) in not much more time than build the steps
up as they go.  Takes about 2 hours to have my top antenna where I can get
to it from the top of the tower and about 2 ½ hours to have it all the way
down to sitting on the tower.



Ed  N1UR