50' Telescoping Antenna Setup

[slas]

Discount.....

I got a discount....once...Their tower had a radio screwed up and went two weeks of little to no internet. Took a few calls but since my $70 bill was due I told them I wasn't sure what I was paying for since we hadn't had internet. They gave a whopping $30 credit.

 

[FreeSpiritBalloon]

We have the same issues. We were with wavelinks after switching back and forth a couple of times when one quit working. Atlink bought them out and recently switched us to their tower. We get 5mb at times but evenings and weekends are under 1/2 mb. Very frustrating since we can’t switch anymore. SW Piedmont is out of alternatives. I should have started my own internet company long ago.


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[Oklahomabassin]

Good internet is perk of living in town I guess.

 

[TerryMiller]

If you can find them, the triangular towers would be the strongest ones, plus it would allow one to climb it to do any repairs/replacements. When we were on the farm, the wife's folks had a triangular one that was also braced with guy wires. I'm glad it did because I was the one that had to climb it, and I'm not sure I would want to climb it without guy wires. Of course, this was up in the Panhandle and we had to have pretty tall towers.

 

[NightShade]

The Ham radio towers are the triangular ones. With the base anchored in concrete and attached to a house at the roof line they are pretty well self standing unless you get up around 75 feet.

 

[OKNewshawk]

Back when I was a kid, we used to have to use the triangular towers for TV reception. I grew up at the Jersey Shore--Philadelphia was the closest TV market and it was 60 miles away, so a large TV antenna with a rotor was the only way to get a good signal. My dad owned a TV repair shop for a few years in the early 1960s and installed those type of towers. He put one on the roof of a yacht club and when we had a 100 year storm (the March 1962 storm), the building was washed into the lagoon it was sitting by but the antenna still stood on the roof. Dad had a photo of that on the wall as a testament to his skill in antenna installation.

 

[CGS1]

You may look into Hughesnet.

 

[CHenry]

I never had any issue with @Link in Tuttle.
They don't owe you anything either.

 

[swampratt]

I built a triangular tower from rebar.. It actually had 4 sides though and was 25 foot tall and a tube in the middle to slip another piece of pipe through to make it taller. angle iron for the base and the guy i built it for bolted it to a concrete pad. He said it worked great.
I did not have that much into it.
I have not priced rebar for many years though.
It may be a cheaper way out for you to build with it.

 

[Dumpstick]

Those "triangular" towers are called Rohn towers. Rohn is actually a brand name, but has become a standard word to define a product, much as Jello and Kleenex have.

I had one put up a few years ago, for the same reason. I bartered a bit, and had a guy install a used 30' with a stinger on top. This is his profession, so he comes across smaller towers, as he installs larger ones.

I can provide his contact info, just drop me a PM