[TowerTalk] TriEx towers misc

[Don W7WLL]

Interesting to see the progression of the manufacturers of towers. While not unusual in business to see buyouts, mergers and the like it seems to be particularly prevalent in the amateur radio market. No doubt no tower manufacturer could live on sales solely to the amateur radio market, also true with so many other items that have some attachment to the amateur market. 

Unfortunately, the evolution of a company or companies serving the amateur radio market often gets lost. Would be nice to see some of this history many of you have shared over time captured for reading later on, I guess basically woven into the web’s eternal memory someplace. If one goes to http://www.tashtowers.com/history.php there is some history re the Tri-Ex-Tashjian story, but no mention of Wilburt (Will-Burt?) for example. Today if you Google Tri-Ex history you get http://www.tri-extower.com/history.php (what?- The Phillipines - confusing to say the least)

>From the conversations I’ve read here I would understand there were some (subtle?) changes between the engineering/design/manufacture of LM towers, significant or not??. Might be helpful, if there is any material significance, to have that documented as well.

Luckily, I have the original WT-51 manual that came with the old spare WT-51 Tri-Ex tower I have, including what appear to be a couple of hand notations on dimensions (nothing of importance). I will try to load it to ‘bama’ under the Tri-Ex name (as that is what company manufactured it).

Don W7WLL



From: Joel 
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:51 AM
To: kanives at yahoo.com ; lovewell at gmail.com ; K0DAN at ARRL.NET ; W7WLL at ARRL.NET 
Subject: TriEx towers misc



Came across a posting on Tower Talk this morning and wanted to respond to people that commented on "tower talk".  It appears that a brief description of crank up towers would be good to set the record straight.



I worked for US Tower for 16 years as a rep and only carried the UST line.  Moved on to TriEx Towers  as the director of marketing for TriEx under the Paragon name.  Joined Paragon Manufacturing (also TriEx), First Call Communications (also TriEx) and also for The Wilburt Company who purchased TriEx as an exclusive.  I sued Wilburt directly that purchased TriEx then retired after Wilburt settled.    TriEx tower rights went to Karl Tashjian. I did not work for Tashjian. 



So what do you fellows need to know about who did what and when??



Joel, K2QBV