[TowerTalk] Ever seen one of these before?

[Jon]

It does appear to be a home brew design since it looks like it was welded
to the tower.

73,
Jon
KD5SFA

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 05:47 Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://photos.app.goo.gl/KZTBmNjAo9K7L3ay8
>
> The whole time I've lived at my QTH, there was this guy a few houses up the
> street who ran a TV repair business out of his house.  He called it
> Day Nite TV Repair.  I took my set to him once back around 1997 and he
> fixed it.  No interest in ham radio or any other electronics.  All he
> did was TV repair and he had a real nice shop in the back of his
> house.  Most of his business came from local schools.  He had 40 feet
> of Rohn 25G behind his house with a rotator and TV antenna on top but
> what made it unique was that the top section included this circular
> work platform with a railing making it look like the crow's nest on a
> ship or widow's walk.  Never asked him where he got it which was a big
> mistake because I've never seen that in any Rohn catalog and yesterday
> a crew came and took down the tower and put the crow's nest out on the
> curb for a scrap picker to get.  I guess the guy went SK.  I got some
> photos while it was still there and put a link to them above (which I
> hope works).
> Anyone ever seen one of these?
> I'm guessing it was a custom job he had done at a welding shop.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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