When I was KP4EAJ in San Juan, I lived on old Navy Base at Isla Grande. I
was not allowed to pour a cement base there. I used the rohn 25G dirt base
to hold the 25G foldover tower with one section above the hinge and one
below the hinge for a total of 60 feet with a TH-6 on top. I got 40 feet of
it up myself. The next day w2gd arrived an put up the rest so he could
operate in one of the sprints. It held up through 4 or 5 hurricanes over
the 4 years I was down there. When we took the tower down and pulled out
the dirt base, it looked like new. It wasn't like I didn't want a cement
base but when the military says no cement, then CHAMPIONS ADJUST !! . I
was probably lucky but it worked for me
press on regardless
Chet N4FX
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cqtestk4xs@aol.com>
To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:25 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] No concrete for a Rohn tower base
> In a message dated 8/17/2009 9:12:38 PM Greenwich Standard Time,
> n5xz@earthlink.net writes:
>
> No concrete at all. They guys
> held the tower up just fine for 8 years.
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>
> I hope you were in a very dry climate. I have seen towers buried in no
> concrete in Florida and the bottoms were nicely rotted out, one so bad
> the
> owner could get no one to climb it.. I definitely wouldn't recommend
> this
> for anyone..all in the name of saving the cost of less than a yard of
> concrete. A BIG prime directive violation.
>
> Bill KH7XS/K4XS
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