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Subject: [TowerTalk] AN Wireless
From: Ed Karl <edk0kl@centurytel.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 17:17:44 -0500
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I have a 90 ft AN Wireless, thrust bearing on top with an Optibeam 5 band antenna (big).

I assembled the antenna on horses on the ground. Then raised the horses to 10 feet with 2x4s. I then installed the mast, truss etc. The thrust bearing comes in 2 parts, one on the tower top, the other a ring that squeezes the mast into the bearing face. I suspended this ring on the mast with wire.

The rotor shelf, rotor and rotor cable to the elect box with the lightening arrester assembly was mounted on the tower. The tower was set by the crane having been already assembled. The antenna was lifted, the mast slid through the thrust bearing and nested in the rotor. Approximate North was known, the antenna turned and set. No messing with a truss at the top of the tower, not bolting
mounting plates, etc.

Simple, still in operation 8 years later.

Good Luck, we're all counting on you!

ed K0KL


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