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Does anyone know of any places that sell used (or new) TV ( or radio) towers in the general area of Beaumont, Texas and or Houston, Texas?
I would like to get a 40 foot tower to put up a serious OTA antenna. I have the antennas but now i need a tower. The old TV Pole that my dad put up here 40 years ago is rusty, bent, too flimsy and too short to put up a real antenna.
I can't find anything in the phone book and Craigslist is turning up nothing anywhere close. I found a few used towers on there but they are hundreds of miles away, way too far.
Thanks.
I would like to get a 40 foot tower to put up a serious OTA antenna. I have the antennas but now i need a tower. The old TV Pole that my dad put up here 40 years ago is rusty, bent, too flimsy and too short to put up a real antenna.
I can't find anything in the phone book and Craigslist is turning up nothing anywhere close. I found a few used towers on there but they are hundreds of miles away, way too far.
Thanks.
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Dee you need to move somewhere that tower systems are readily available
There is probably 6 or 7 tower systems just on the road I live on (including my neighbors)
The town nearest me (12 miles away) thats all you see are towers (there never was cable there)
Ah, easier said than done though. I just took over the family home which I'm obligated to keep and maintain. If I didn't have this house I would move north, I can't stand the 11-1/2 months of summer, it's truly miserable.
I'm pretty sure I'll eventually find one, I only started to look for one a few weeks ago but I haven't really put all my effort into it just yet. I've got some other stuff I need to get out of the way first before and I also have to save up.
I could buy a new one outright for cash but that would put me in a major pinch for a month and I don't like that so I need to set aside a few hundred dollars a month for several months so I can buy the whole nine yards. Plus I'll have to pay the handyman to pour a huge cement base in the ground for it. I've googled for pictures of towers and I've seen where guys dig huge holes they can stand in then build a metal reinforcement cage to put in the hole and pour the cement around it.
That's way more work than I can deal with so I'm going to have to pay a guy to do that, I figure he'll charge me a few hundred dollars for labor, at the least. And I want to put an electric winch on it to raise and lower it, to heck with cranking on a hand winch !
Another thing I saw was people used C-band actuators to make antenna tippers. I can buy a short one and I have an unused G-box to control it with. I saw all sorts of neat ways people built the dual antennas and I thought of a few ways to make my sturdier by removing some of the mounting brackets. Since I have fiberglass tubes to mount them too I can eliminate the part that would hold it up and away from a metal pole and just clamp them right to the fiberglass poles. It should make them much stronger and a tiny bit lighter. Looking at pictures of stuff other people built gives me all sorts of ideas. Most of them are probably lame but eventually I'll figure it out.
Oh and then there's a professional motor I would have to buy, those cost like $450 and up. Arrrrrgh! By the time I get everything it's going to run me $2,000 easy!
One way or the other, I need to get it done in the winter time. I'm soooooo sick and tired of the heat. We're still months away from cool weather down here.
Oh yeah, your little screen.. Those are pretty decent. I bought three of them..
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The reason there are so many towers around here is to get TV outside of PBS & CBS its pretty much a necessity
Dee I was being funny. No clue how people live there and deal with the heat and humidity like that. But then again folks may ask how I can deal with -30 in January and Winter 8 months of the year
The reason there are so many towers around here is to get TV outside of PBS & CBS its pretty much a necessity
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I know this wont help but just found a nice tower about an hour south of Minneapolis
The Antenna looks kinda banged up but the tower is nice...and so is the price
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/ele/5215447472.html
The Antenna looks kinda banged up but the tower is nice...and so is the price
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/ele/5215447472.html
I know this wont help but just found a nice tower about an hour south of Minneapolis
The Antenna looks kinda banged up but the tower is nice...and so is the price
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/ele/5215447472.html
WOW! That's a crazy good deal !! I would love to find a deal like that around here!
That gives me hope though that there are still good deals to be found. I'll just have to be diligent and check CL every day so I don't miss out on something like that!
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An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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