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Re: [TowerTalk] 180', homebrew tower...1980? Anybody remember?

To: atrampler@mchsi.com, towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 180', homebrew tower...1980? Anybody remember?
From: BobK8IA@aol.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:55:48 EDT
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In a message dated 7/27/2007 4:36:08 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
atrampler@mchsi.com writes:

Hi  All,

Just wondering if any of you remember and know what became of a  homebrew 
tower that was on the cover of QST somewhere in the 1980-1982  period.

I think it was in Michigan, and it was made of pipe.  The  base was 120 feet 
tall, tapered, with a platform for the chain driven  rotator/ball-bearing 
support and then the top of that section was at 120'  with a thrust bearing.

Inside was a straight tower, about 3' on a side,  80' long (60' projecting 
above the base).

If I recall, I saw the  owner's kid trying to sell it on Ebay a few years 
ago.  Just  wondering if anybody knows if something good became of it.

73,
Art,  KC2G 



Art, From QST January, 1987...I think that's the tower you are  thinking of. 
"Mid-Michigan Skyhook". It is also shown in ARRL's "Yagi Antenna  Classics", 
page 8-3 thru 8-5. Impressive pics there. 
 
John Baublitz WD8RXP owned and built the structrure with help from  WA8AEG 
and WD8RZE. The bottom 120' (tapered) went from 5" tubing (or pipe) at  the 
bottom and ended up with 3" tubing (or pipe) at the top. I cant see anything  
that 
references the side widths of the bottom tower, but it appears to be maybe  
15' or so at the base, maybe more.
 
>From there an "upper tower" was constructed. It was 8' long, but  only 60' 
were out of the tower, making nthe whole thing 180' tall. The bottom of  the 
"upper tower" was 36" on a side at its bottom and 18" on a side at the top.  
The 
upper tower rotated and had large KLM yagis on it.
 
Unfortunately, WD8RXP passed away in 1999. Maybe one of those other  guys 
know what happened to the structure.  

73, Bob  K8IA




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