[TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

[Grant Saviers]

I looked at the Luso150US plus 4.5" dia 5 meter mast in some detail, had 
them do the calcs for the antennas I wanted.  2x 4L 40, 2 x 5L 20, 3L 80 
which is a fairly serious tower loading!  It didn't happen for three 
reasons, a used R65 tower and 9 yagis became locally available cheap, I 
preferred independent rotators (rings or swing arms) and servicing 
concerns with the Luso.  So, I went with a Phillystran guyed R65 tower 
with K0XG rings.  For high wind areas the Luso may be a good choice with 
its 1 minute up/down cycle, if the regulators allow that mode of compliance.

In the end the cost difference of Luso vs what I did was small since the 
tower was erected professionally (a 20' section with two rings weighed 
about 1000#) .  The Luso base is a monster, their base plus rebar plus 
lots of concrete. As I understand it, Luso ships in a dedicated 2TEU 
container and ships everything (except the engineer) in it.  Nice slide 
show of Luso install: http://www.7163net.com/k8xs/index.html

Flying an engineer from Japan might be cheaper than commercial tower 
riggers here.

Grant KZ1W



On 1/3/2017 4:01 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> Luso appears to be a very nice tower but I am not sure that it is only a
> few dollars more than the new UST prices. I have read that they require
> you to fly their engineer from Japan to your site when installing it.
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> To:	Wayne Kline <w3ea at hotmail.com>
> Subject:	Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase
> From:	Ed via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Reply-to:	Ed <navydude1962 at yahoo.com>
> Date:	Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:12:30 -0800
>
> If you're remotely contemplating a UST, consider a LUSO for just a few
> dollars
> more!
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