They don't want any Amateur sales. They do not want last minute orders.
They must have landed a large gov't or commercial contract and they want
to concentrate on that.
Circulate a petition? For what? They are a private business making
business decisions that are best for their business. I don't think UST
owes the ham radio community anything do they? Did we do something
special for them? If you don't like their practices use someone else.
This opens the door for another company to come in and fill the gap if
it makes good business sense.
Welcome to the world of Capitalism.
W0MU
On 1/3/2017 10:08 AM, Ed via TowerTalk wrote:
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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