Don
Clyde Blylevin, who had worked at Tri-ex and maybe Tristao, went to
Hy-Gain in the 80's and started a tower line for them. The basic
ideas and designs all emanate from Lou Tristao and Tri-ex. Hy-Gain
was hoping to get military as well as industrial business to sustain
selling towers in to the amateur radio market.
One solution to lowering your tower would be to bury a telephone pole
and use that as your lowering fixture. You would need a heavy duty
block and tackle with mechanical advantage to bring the tower down. I
used a 2x block and the bucket of my John Deere tractor.
When I had to work on my rotator in my Tri-ex W67 crank-up, I would
extend the tower enough to expose the rotor. I would never climb the
tower and would do all work while on a ladder. As a precaution, I
would also block the sections so they would not fall while they were
being worked on
73, Craig Clark, K1QX
RADIOWARE AND RADIO BOOKSTORE
PO BOX 209
RINDGE NH 03461
603 899 6957
WWW.RADIO-WARE.COM
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