[TowerTalk] AN Wireless

[David Gilbert]

I'm going to agree with you there.  Personally, I don't think any 
expression of opinion on a forum like this counts as defamation, but it 
was never my point to judge that anyway.  Legal opinions vary all over 
the place on such matters.

One of my best friends (a very active contester with a fine 
installation) has a 70 foot Trylon and it has served him very well. I 
bought my AN Wireless HD-70  because of the extreme wind gusts in my 
area and because I wasn't certain what kind of large antennas I might 
want to put on it at some point in the future.  I also thought that at 
some point I (or my survivors) might want to put a large wind generator 
on it.  The difference in cost for a relatively large difference in 
performance seemed like a good trade off for me, but clearly that 
wouldn't necessarily be the case for others.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 5/7/2016 5:47 PM, ve4xt at mymts.net wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems to me the question isn't if AN makes good towers or whether they spec bulletproof bases. Clearly, they do. Dave is certainly to be congratulated for a first-rate installation.
>
> The question is whether an experienced, respected tower professional opining the base may be overkill, or whether Trylon is good enough for the average ham, rises to the level of defamation.
>
> Does anyone think it does?
>
> Difference of opinion does not equal defamation.
>
> 73, kelly, ve4xt
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On May 7, 2016, at 3:08 AM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:
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>> That's a pretty ignorant comment.  I own an HD-70 tower and I have the pictures to prove it.
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>> http://www.ab7e.com/AB7E_Tower_Page_1.html
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>> It is indeed a brute.  I'm actually afraid of heights, but that tower is so sturdy that as long as I'm strapped in with my full body harness and three straps I'm comfortable working up at the top. I've been up there in 60 mph winds and can barely feel any sway in the tower (with about 20 sq ft of antenna at the top).  A local wireless ISP uses my tower and had to get an engineering study done on it to satisfy the local zoning people ... they came back and said that my tower was only 18% loaded.
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>> Educate yourself and read the engineering study referenced by VE7RF.  The folks who vouch for the AN Wireless towers aren't shills ... they just know more than you do.
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>> By the way, my 70 foot HD-70 tower was installed per the recommended base at the time (2008).  It was spec'd at 9 ft by 9ft by 5ft, which works out to be right at 15 cubic yards of concrete.  Mine ended up slightly larger because of the nasty large rocks in my soil ... it's impossible to cut a clean hole here.
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>> Dave   AB7E
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>>> On 5/6/2016 1:02 PM, J.P. wrote:
>>> Cue the AN shills...
>>>
>>> XX/7
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