New Tower installed

[jonbah]

I finally installed the new tower. Took a lot of time and effort but its finally ready.

View pics here-www.jonbah.com/ham.htm

 

[Joe]

very very nice

 

[NorthStar]

Yep very nice. Thats the way to do it for sure.

 

[novakor]

Nicely done :beer jonbah running with the big dogs

 

[Randy CDX492]

Well done Jonbah, Cant wait to see the beams when they are all done and on the tower.

 

[DuckKilla]

That is sweet. :shock: You did a great job.Its nice to be able to crank them down in bad weather or when you need to work on them.

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

Hey...

you totally messed up...

you were supposed to install it on my property !!!

LOL..

Good Luck with it

 

[jonbah]

Thanks everybody I hope to have it on the air soon. Its been alot of fun.

 

[Sonwatcher]

Looks great ! I'll have to get over there !

 

[bcrewcaptain]

jonbah, lookds great....load that sucker up and get to talkin!

 

[RON44613]

looking good jonbah...

 

[rfoverlord]

sweeeeet. nice nice job. should have lotsa fun with that set up

 

[Roger Dodger]

I'm curious as to why you went through all that fab to hoist it vertical? I see the guage of metal is thick, but is it that heavy that two people can't simply walk it up? My tower was a hinged 30'er and just two of us walked it up and then the long center mast post was pushed up manually, then pinned in place, to further raise the antennas. A crank-up tower of that guage should be able to be permanently anchored, and then you can climb that small height to install the antennas then raise it. Or am I missing something here?

 

[Sonwatcher]

The spec's of that tower show the weight of the tower to be 670 lbs. Its' minimum height is 21 ft. Max is 55 ft.

 

[jonbah]

Sonwatcher is correct on the specs. I don't think it would be possible to walk this tower up from a lowered position. This is a 55' free standing design that will handle about 14 sq ft of wind load with no guys. Also the main antenna, a Mosley PRO-67b weighs about 100 lbs by itself plus the rotor mast, several other antennas and the downward force of the coax cables. The crank up enables you to lower the antennas of course for maintenance and bad weather. The raising fixture makes the tower accessable so you don't need a cherry picker every time you want to work on or change your antenna system its kinda tough to reach out to a yagi's 38' boom when your up on top I'd rather stand on a 12' ladder.
It was well worth the effort.

Thanks
Jonbah