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K2WS
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 8, 2009 13:13
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You CAN depend on these guys!!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I heard on 15 meters one evening a couple of DX'ers here on Long Island talking about Hudson Valley Towers and how reliable Ray & Lee are. Since the gentlemen who did my previous work was not available for 13 months, I desperately needed work done ASAP! I e-mailed Hudson Valley Towers on Oct 19 in desperation. A day later we had a phone conversation in which I described the maintenance work needed on the tower.
In spite of it being late October, they tentatively scheduled me in for 1 day's work in November - providing there was a job cancellation. I sent Lee a detailed list of work required and a few pictures of the K2WS antenna system- consisting of a 70ft. motorized tower with a Force 12 C31-XR, EF-417, an M-squared 6M7 and a Diamond X500HNA. That 10 year old Diamond vertical had recently snapped off near it's base and the metallic innards had draped over the 17 meter EF-417 beam! NOT a good thing! I had issues with the tower limit switches as well as the rotator stop point being wrong. You get the picture - a lot of bad stuff that had to be fixed before another LI winter set in.
On Nov 2nd Hudson Valley Towers sent me an email asking if they could to the work on Saturday, Nov 7th. YES, said I and on Saturday morning they arrived at 8:45am- earlier then scheduled, WOW. Ray, Lee and helper Bobby immediately got down to business on that brisk, sunny morning. Without going into details, the guys attacked the job "top-down", starting with replacing the Diamond X500HNA that's mounted on top of the 24 foot chromalloy mast - with 3 large yagis to avoid. They completed all the antenna work on the tower, ran a new feedline thru the underground PVC pipe to the radio room and completed the tower and rotator maintenance by dark! Bravo gentlemen, you fellows are a class act and I would not hesitate to recommend you.
TNX AGN ES 73, Alan - K2WS
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