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Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:34:33 -0600
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They need a 110 foot tower to put what, wireless internet equipment on?  Not 
sure what a dish foot is, or a "simese" coax and power cable...
Lots of 110FT self supporting towers out there...venders like USA towers, 
Texas Towers
Why, pray tell, do they need cameras on a 110FT self supporting tower?
Bird watching perhaps?
How much equipment is going up? are they going to want to add commercial 
antennas for rental purposes?  What kind of wind load does the tower need to 
be able to handle?  What is the over all purpose of this tower and does it 
have to be 110ft for a specific reason?
If they are plopping some light data link gear on it, it could be a smaller 
style, but if they want to maximize profitability with commercial antennas 
on site, then it has to be a pretty hefty tower costing 10s of thousands.
Maintenance, installation and permits are all factors to consider...it's not 
a simple undertaking to just throw up a 110 foot self supporting 
tower...especially if your just going to be putting a couple intigrated link 
style boxes on it.
If this is a Parish/county undertaking, then I hope someone has thought of 
putting up something hefty and installing a bunch of arrays on it to 
maximize commercial rental potential.  110 feet allows for a considerable 
foot print and companies will pay pretty decent money to have access to 
that.
Obviously you have your local amateur radio club informed to accomidate a 
couple antennas for ham gear right? for emergency purposes naturally lol. 
The great thing about a brand new tower install is that it doesn't cost much 
more, and doesn't take that much more time to add a couple 4 bay arrays on 
the tower for ham use...or multi-cupple some commercial antennas that are 
bringing in rental revenue on to the ham gear.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message----- 
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 3:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: tower needed

Exactly!At 03:04 PM 6/8/2015, you wrote:
>Huh? what?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gery Gaubert
>Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:38 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: tower needed
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>                 Here at work we need a tower.  Not sure if anyone knows 
> any=
>thing about this equipment but figured it couldn't hurt to check.
>Specs are as follows
>110 foot self supporting tower  foot dishes with radios attached mounted 
>at=
>the highest height,  each have 1 cat5E cable and also 1 camera with simese=
>power and coax cable. 

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