Looking for a tower base mount

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Looking for a tower base mount

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Im looking for a tower base mount that would hinge, I have a tower that im itching to get up.
RCI-2980WX
ELKIN 6 (6dq6) sometimes a driver
Henry Radio 2k2
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Cobra 2000
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What brand of tower? If you aren't sure, post up some images if you can. It might be your best bet is to simply have one made. But if it's a Rohn, Tri-Ex, Universal, etc. you might be better off simply getting a factory one.

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Texas Towers was very helpful to me, not the cheapest though. The bases I have seen with the smaller towers say to just do the tower by itself, that is if you have a large antenna going on the top the tower itself may try to bend as you stand it up. Above all be careful!
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A tilt-over tower base plate is one of those things that's better to over-do, rather than under do, if you make it yourself. The idea is sort of simple, but the doing of it really isn't. The concrete under that base plate is even more of a 'bigger is better' thingy. Just remember, the minimum standards from the tower makers are just that, the minimum, not the average, or the best.
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The second pic is the base pic, anyone know what kind or where to get a base plate?
RCI-2980WX
ELKIN 6 (6dq6) sometimes a driver
Henry Radio 2k2
Imax 2000
4 element maco
RCI-2950 twin tube modulator
Cobra 2000
Washington
A bunch of other stuff
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I posted some pics of a tower I was given anyone know where I could get a mount
RCI-2980WX
ELKIN 6 (6dq6) sometimes a driver
Henry Radio 2k2
Imax 2000
4 element maco
RCI-2950 twin tube modulator
Cobra 2000
Washington
A bunch of other stuff
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The second pic is the base pic, anyone know what kind or where to get a base plate?
Looks like a ROHN BX SERIES tower


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Its not a real radio unless it has tubes and USB/LSB on the front panel ....
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thats what i was thinking
RCI-2980WX
ELKIN 6 (6dq6) sometimes a driver
Henry Radio 2k2
Imax 2000
4 element maco
RCI-2950 twin tube modulator
Cobra 2000
Washington
A bunch of other stuff
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Do you have more than 2 sections or is what you see is what you got?
Its not a real radio unless it has tubes and USB/LSB on the front panel ....
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I have 5 sections
RCI-2980WX
ELKIN 6 (6dq6) sometimes a driver
Henry Radio 2k2
Imax 2000
4 element maco
RCI-2950 twin tube modulator
Cobra 2000
Washington
A bunch of other stuff
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