[TowerTalk] Tower Build

[Big Don]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net
> wrote:

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> [-SNIP-]
> A crank up and fold over for a given height and antenna wind area, is
> larger, much heavier has a lot of moving parts and requires one humongous
> chunk of concrete for a base compared to a guyed tower. However the XYL
> might prefer the expense to having guy anchors around the yard.
> 73 Roger  (K8RI)


Note on safety for tilt-over configs, unless you have one of those setups
that continuously holds the beam plane horizontal, as the tower is tilted
over, there are still plenty of access problems to deal with. There are
numerous pix in ham mags, and in YouTubes, showing hams precariously on
*stepladders*, with zero fall protection, working on their 'accessible'
antennas. You can't belt onto a stepladder....
Don  N7EF

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> On 7/2/2015 6:40 PM, Big Don wrote:
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>> Before summarily blowing off a guyed configuration, it would be worth
>> browsing thru the TowerTalk Archives for all the problems folks have had
>> with winches, cables, pulleys, coax pinches/tangles/fatigue, sections
>> jammiing, including unhappy motor electronics (today's stuff).
>>
>> http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/
>>
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