[TowerTalk] Heavy duty free-standing tower options?

[David Gilbert]

Well, the comparison made by K7LXC was to the standard Trylon ... the 
one mentioned in his post where he said N9WX was "lucky not to have 
bought a HD-70".  The standard Titan series is the only one I could find 
on his Champion Radio website.   Possibly Steve carries the Super Titan 
as well, but I didn't find it there ... only on the manufacturer's site.

The only listed prices I can see are $3,770 for the Trylon T500-72 and 
$$4,080 for the HD-70.  If those indeed are the current prices that's an 
8% difference for what you admit is a "way stronger" tower.

I'm not knocking Trylon towers.  They are solid towers and LOTS of hams 
have them with no issues.  But the HD-70 is indeed considerably stronger 
than the T500-72 and after seeing what the winds do here at my QTH I am 
grateful I had the good sense to buy one.  Whether N9WX needed one or 
not is his call.

Dave   AB7E



On 1/12/2016 9:37 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:23:38 -0700
> From: David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Heavy duty free-standing tower options?
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> I have an HD-70 and wouldn't buy anything else, given the wind gusts I
> get here on this hillside.  The Trylon towers are a good value
> (performance versus cost), but they aren't are strong as the AN Wireless
> products.  The AN Wireless web  site used to have a pdf file from a
> structural engineer comparing the two, and although the comparison was
> funded by AN Wireless it's pretty hard to dispute the data.  I don't
> know if the file is still there, but I have a copy if you want it.
>
> And yes, the almost 20m cubic yards of concrete that went into my tower
> base may be overkill, but I've been at the top of the tower in 60+ mph
> wind gusts with two Optibeam antennas on it and barely felt it move ...
> and I would know because I'm fundamentally acrophobic. The cost of
> whatever extra concrete there may have been was a small portion of the
> total cost (tower plus rotator plus antennas plus shipping) anyway.
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
> ## The trylon  super titan series of towers are every bit as strong as the an wireless.
> And both the super titan and an wireless are way stronger than the plane jane trylon
> titan tower.   Any analysis of  an an wireless and the light duty titan is misleading at best,
> its an apples to oranges comparison.    U can now also buy the welded version of the super titan.
> They also make a super max version of the  super titan..in 19 ft sections..and up to 250 ft tall.
>
> ##  The 70 ft trylon super titan will handle loads of wind...plus 1 inch of ice.  Both are good towers.
>
> Jim    VE7RF
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