[TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

[Ed]

If UST was smart, they would give advance warning of a price increase, with an effective date. Imagine the number of last-minute sales that would generate!  To raise prices overnight, shocking even HRO employees clearly makes no sense. 

I'm just glad to have what I already have and am sorry for the hams who do not. Somebody ought to write a letter to UST and, perhaps even circulate a petition if there are enough disenfranchised customers.  

> On Jan 3, 2017, at 08:43, Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Flying an engineer from Japan might be cheaper than commercial tower riggers here.
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> Grant KZ1W
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>> 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
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>> 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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