Re: To Cost of a Medium Big Station
Reply # 5
Subj: Re: [TowerTalk] Cost of a medium big station?
Date: 05/21/2000 7:55:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Guy Olinger, K2AV) To: [email protected]
(Bill Hawkins)
The superstations I have been part of over the years did NOT set down, blueprint, and then do some retail price orgy. Always there were the deals and leads on some good stuff for free. I helped build a lot of towers from W3GRF's PVRC surplus depot. Connections to them that knew where stuff was paramount. There was a lot of free labor, and often hand-made beams, etc. The camaraderie from doing it this way was most of the fun.
Kind of like a barn-raising in Amish country. The 70' boom monster 40 meter beam at W4BVV was from aluminum stock for elements and large diameter irrigation tubing for the boom. Rotated with a large prop-pitch, and selsyns at top and in shack. Main cost was the tubing and all the ropes necessary to get it in the air.
Ditto a lot of the equipment. Homebrew 4-1000 amps. A lot of rigs brought in by the operators for the multi-multi operation. $100k? 100% High End Retail.
Only for the unimaginative and unconnected.
What a waste.
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73, Guy [email protected] Apex, NC, USA
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