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Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

To: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase
From: Ed via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Ed <navydude1962@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:08:41 -0800
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If UST was smart, they would give advance warning of a price increase, with an 
effective date. Imagine the number of last-minute sales that would generate!  
To raise prices overnight, shocking even HRO employees clearly makes no sense. 

I'm just glad to have what I already have and am sorry for the hams who do not. 
Somebody ought to write a letter to UST and, perhaps even circulate a petition 
if there are enough disenfranchised customers.  

> On Jan 3, 2017, at 08:43, Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> I looked at the Luso150US plus 4.5" dia 5 meter mast in some detail, had them 
> do the calcs for the antennas I wanted.  2x 4L 40, 2 x 5L 20, 3L 80 which is 
> a fairly serious tower loading!  It didn't happen for three reasons, a used 
> R65 tower and 9 yagis became locally available cheap, I preferred independent 
> rotators (rings or swing arms) and servicing concerns with the Luso.  So, I 
> went with a Phillystran guyed R65 tower with K0XG rings.  For high wind areas 
> the Luso may be a good choice with its 1 minute up/down cycle, if the 
> regulators allow that mode of compliance.
> 
> In the end the cost difference of Luso vs what I did was small since the 
> tower was erected professionally (a 20' section with two rings weighed about 
> 1000#) .  The Luso base is a monster, their base plus rebar plus lots of 
> concrete. As I understand it, Luso ships in a dedicated 2TEU container and 
> ships everything (except the engineer) in it.  Nice slide show of Luso 
> install: http://www.7163net.com/k8xs/index.html
> 
> Flying an engineer from Japan might be cheaper than commercial tower riggers 
> here.
> 
> Grant KZ1W
> 
> 
> 
>> On 1/3/2017 4:01 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
>> Luso appears to be a very nice tower but I am not sure that it is only a
>> few dollars more than the new UST prices. I have read that they require
>> you to fly their engineer from Japan to your site when installing it.
>> 
>> John KK9A
>> 
>> 
>> To:    Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>
>> Subject:    Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase
>> From:    Ed via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Reply-to:    Ed <navydude1962@yahoo.com>
>> Date:    Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:12:30 -0800
>> 
>> If you're remotely contemplating a UST, consider a LUSO for just a few
>> dollars
>> more!
>> 
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