I'd like a big self supporting crank-up but it'd stay up except for sever
weather or maintenance.
Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com
>I agree with the negatives about crankups given. Also, less windload --
>limited by the lack of guys -- it's self-supporting -- and the smaller
>diameter of the top section.
>
> In favor of them: Greater storm survivability, lowering to 22' or so (use
> a ladder to go up) the working height. Though 22' is still dangerous,
> some people really do not want to be 40 or 50 or 60 or 90' above the
> ground, fear of heights. At a beach home where winds are higher, etc. and
> any second home where you're not there all the time, the "stowed position"
> may be helpful for survivability. And many of these types of QTHs don't
> have much land -- land needed for the footprint of the guy wires, etc., so
> a self supporter may be what's needed. The "stealth" factor that cranked
> down behind your house a lot of neighbors and passers-by won't be able to
> see it.
>
> 73 - Rich, KE3Q
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