These towers are temporary cell site towers to handle situations like
Katrina and areas of population growth make it a requirement to maintain
phone communications. IMHO they would be ideal for ARRL field day or grid
square hopping when E-skip season is in. Cell antennas are small, and have
small wind area.
With that being said, it would be nice to have something like that to go
hill top hopping with BUT don't but an OB16-3 or anything thing like that on
these. I would like one for testing a new antenna for 6 meters.
Again my 2 cents.
73 Hardy N7RT/4
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Rhodes
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:44 PM
To: jimlux
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mobile Towers
The tops of all three sections have guy points. Every temporary cell site
tower I have ever seen were all guyed at the top if each section. Yes, most
ham type crank ups are not designed for guying the upper sections. But these
aren't ham towers.
On Sep 22, 2016 12:40 PM, "jimlux" <jimlux@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 9/22/16 9:45 AM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
>
>> And they are pretty light weight towers. Look close, the diagonals
>> are tubing and the whole thing is bolted together. Designed to be
>> guyed at the top of all 3 sections. Maybe for very temporary use with
light loading.
>>
>>
> I'll bet not guyed.. Crankups don't usually guy on the top because it
> puts loads on the hoist cable.
>
> They deploy these things with some lightweight antenna (wireless
> network, mini cell site, something like that) and if it falls over in
> the wind, they pick it back up or deploy another one.
>
> They are NOT designed or intended for permanent installation.
>
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