[TowerTalk] Hello

[Gene Smar]

Also, read and commit to memory:  http://www.qsl.net/n1lo/tower_ref.pdf .


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
(That memory thing is optional.)


-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Larry
Banks
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2018 8:57 PM
To: Seth Lavinder <w8fg.tower at gmail.com>; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hello

Hi Seth,

The first thing you need to do is purchase and READ: Up The Tower: The
Complete Guide to Tower Construction
by Steve Morris (Author).   Find it at https://www.championradio.com/.  This

will answer just about any question you have.

73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ




-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Lavinder
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2018 20:37
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Hello

Greetings,

Thank You for having me,  I come seeking knowledge and thought I should go
ahead and introduce myself before asking a presumably stupid question on
this reflector.

My name is Seth Lavinder,  I have been an amateur for 25 years and am a 13
WPM Extra Class holding callsign W8FG.

I just recently moved into the first possible location for me to have a
tower.  I am in the very early stages of planning this project but seek and
and all advice.  This highest priority is safety, the second highest is
affordability.  I am not made of money and I cannot go hire the finest
concrete people in town to come and do my install,  I cannot afford to rent
a crane,  I will have to go old school with a bunch of friends and a GIN
pole the day the tower goes up.

My lot is bigger than your average city "postage stamp" but it's just barely
big enough to pull off my lofty goals of erecting  80 foot of ROHN 45G

I expect to top the tower with a CUSHCRAFT 5 element 6 meter beam, and a
CUSHCRAFT A4S tribander.  I then plan to load the entire system for
160/80/40 use,  all of this I know in concept to be right and possible, but
in theory I have some studying to do!

I will leave it at that for the moment.  I thank you again for your expert
sharing of knowledge.
I hope joining into this group will give me the knowledge I need to complete
my project.  This ham is ready for some real antennas!


73 de Seth - W8FG
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