Guys, I have a 8/8 stack to Europe for 10 meters on 48' booms. I'm also putting up 7/7 for 15 meters on 48' booms. I'm wondering what type of boom to leg arrangement to use. I'm leary of tightening a
What you're trying to do is get enough purchase from the U-bolts that the antennas will stay put in the wind. 45G only has 14 gauge walls plus they're only 1-1/4 inch OD so I wouldn't go too nuts tig
I'd be more than leary...... the towers I have are all heavier than Rohn 45 and I wouldn't consider mounting anything on just one leg - that just can't help but weaken the leg and contribute to an ev
leg the Don, I've seen the photos on your web site and the hardware and all is very impressive. I'm not sure how it's going to 'weaken' the leg. We're not talking about tightening the U-bolts until t
Bill et.al., For 24 ft booms, I have found 4 U-bolts, preferably with a 1-1/2 inch opening, works very well in attaching booms to a Rohn 25 / 35 tower leg. The idea of attaching a 48 ft boom to a tow
A picture is worth a thousand words so here goes: (One, or) two pieces of horizontal aluminum channel. End view of channel : |___| Three vertical members, two tower legs, and a short 2 (or 3) inch di
Not only tightening down too tight on a tower leg, but also a big antenna bolted to a tower leg will work left and right in the wind, scoring the tower leg and considerably weakening it at that point