[TowerTalk] Fast, cheap, and or good... Pick two.

[Kim Elmore]

I have an HDBX48 that has been in service (by now) for nearly 30 years.  
Mine has been holding 18 sq feet plus 8 ft of 2 in mast for that length 
of time with measured winds up to 86 MPH. It's hell-for-stout but VERY 
uncomfortable to climb due to the X-bracing.

Kim N5OP

On 1/3/2015 5:04 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
> In my pre-retirement days I was often in the fast, cheap, and or good; 
> pick any two game.
>
>
> I would like to solicit the opinions of the TT brain trust regarding 
> the best tower to avoid climbing. I've been there, done that and as 
> the years roll by it is less of an attraction.  I'm thinking unguyed, 
> at least above the top of the lowest section and probably either 
> crank-up, tilt-over, or crank-up/tilt-over.
>
>
> I have a 2 section tilt-over/crank-up with 3 way guys on the lower 
> section that with tube mast goes above 50 ft and handles light weight 
> moderate wind loading antennas (hex beam) but it is NOT going to get a 
> large heavy antenna and rotor (when exactly did rotors become 
> rotators?   (Maybe about the time all problems became issues?)
>
>
> I don't want to over buy (money is an issue if not a problem) but 
> don't want to under buy and regret it later.  (Short sighted decisions 
> made in haste can be regretted at your leisure.)
>
>
> Then there is Galvanized steel vs aluminum or??
>
> I want a design that will take a minimum of 20 sqft of antenna 
> windage, 250 lbs antenna weight before rotor and mast,  and preferably 
> no guys but a guyed bottom section is a possibility.
>
> Ideas, suggestions?
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it 
doesn’t matter who said it./