[TowerTalk] summary: rotating tower hardware : EU

[Richard Riley]

Hi all,

I promised to provide a summary of the responses I received.  Thanks first to KZ1W and N4ZR.
(Grant: I tried to reply to your email address on several occasions and it got bounced... worth checking)

The recommendations were to shop at:
http://custommetalworks.com/rts/rts.htm
I have emailed twice (a month ago) to no avail :(.

Grant also stated "KX0G rings are well thought out and super duty".  Emailed here numerous times over last 6mths ago to no avail :(.

My experience suggests that if a company cannot answer sales enquiries in a week or two, don't expect them to answer post-sales service claims ever... so given I am on the other side of the planet and a complex and demanding customer, I have dropped these leads.

For guying material, Pete recommended "pultruded fiberglass guy rod" as used at some of PVRC's big stations.  Several hours of Googling for such in Europe yielded "Europe, no points" :(.

So I have concluded that linearcomposites.com and fibremax.nl are alone over here.  I did poke around the surplus markets in the UK's larger shipyards (Plymouth / Aberdeen), but it's a bit hit and miss given that they may have 1000m today and then none for years...((the same material is used on platforms and all sorts out at sea).

On the ring and base front...well Ranko (4O3A) is answering his emails, so he has a head start on the rest :).

Thank you all for this one, and for all your banter on the reflector that makes for good bed-time reading ;-).

73 9a1tt

Richard Riley


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