[TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

[Cox, Norman R.]

    I purchased my U.S. Tower crank-up two years ago, and have been very happy with it.  I'm sorry to see this questionable price increase, though.  Maybe in the future, when business slows, they will put some  "on sale" to keep some orders flowing in.  I would think that they have enough margin to offer a pretty good discount, if they wanted to.


Norm

KE0ZT



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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Chris <EZRhino at fastmovers.biz>
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

Better order from someone else pretty quick...when Tashjian gets wind of this, they may raise their prices too!

Chris
KF7P







On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:16 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:

> They don't want any Amateur sales. They do not want last minute orders.  They must have landed a large gov't or commercial contract and they want to concentrate on that.
>
> Circulate a petition?  For what?  They are a private business making business decisions that are best for their business.  I don't think UST owes the ham radio community anything do they? Did we do something special for them?  If you don't like their practices use someone else.
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> This opens the door for another company to come in and fill the gap if it makes good business sense.
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> Welcome to the world of Capitalism.
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> W0MU
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> On 1/3/2017 10:08 AM, Ed via TowerTalk wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> On Jan 3, 2017, at 08:43, Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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