As a crankup owner and K7LXC customer, I agree with most of your comments,
Steve.
I wouldn't characterize UST customer support as "good." A better description
might be "reluctantly effective." I have had to argue with them several
times to get support but they have always capitulated and done the right
thing. I still can't get the damn control box to work consistently but at
least they explained how to open it up and override the flakey lockouts
which fail temporarily at random intervals. This $10,000 monster works
correctly about half the time.
I bought the crankup solely for neighbor appeasement. Now that I know my
wonderful neighbors even better than three years ago, if the crankup ever
gets destroyed I'll probably replace it with the guyed tower I really wanted
all along.
73,
/Rick N6XI
On 12/22/05, K7LXC@aol.com <K7LXC@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 12/17/2005 9:03:36 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
>
> > Can I get some feed back from you guys on experience with
> Crank Up towers?
>
> ...
> Pros - I can't think of any.
> ...
>
> US Tower is the 800 pound gorilla. They make a good product and offer
> good customer support. There is an aluminum crank-up out there but it's
> even
> more expensive and is very fragile compared to a steel tower. Tri-Ex
> crank-ups
> are being sold but I don't have anything good to say about their customer
> service.
> ...
> Of course there are spouses that would prefer a crank-up and other
> aesthetic reasons for buying one but the only reason I've ever heard of
> that truly
> justifies one is N6RJ who convinced his neighbors it would only be
> extended
> after dark.
>
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