[Elecraft] Tower Identification

[Dave Gingrich K9DC]

At 17:18 9/22/2002 -0700, Jim W7RY wrote:
>Yup! Its a Rohn (originally made by Spalding). They made a HDBX (heavy duty)
>and the non heavy duty BX tower.
>
>They are 8 foot sections. Each of the sections will fit inside of the one
>below it. It was not to expensive to ship it that way.
>
>They are pretty good towers. Watch the wind loading and the they are not too
>good for LONG boom antennas.
>
>The are just fine for a  3-4 element tribander. They will even work with a
>TH6 but no larger.

Also VERY important, the Rohn/Spaulding towers were meant to be self 
supporting. That means NO guy wires. Their structure was not designed to 
support large amounts of vertical weight, such as that induced by guy 
wires. They tend to crush nicely when pulled down on.

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Dave Gingrich, K9DC - Indianapolis, Indiana  USA
K2 #2211, K1 #931, QRP-L #2376, ARS #1109,
FPQRP #389, IRLP 473/573,  k9dc.ampr.org
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