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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] US Tower price increase
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 14:34:17 -0600
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Free enterprise capitalism. Apparently the move made sense to some folks as they didn't do it as a random act. Pulese! everybody stop all the little sissy girl whining and get on with your life. How many folks actually were seriously just about to buy one of their towers? Not many. So why are so many folks lowering their flag to half mast and scourging and flailing themselves with the slack in the halyard?

11:08 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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