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Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:

Created by ltaprojects.com on 2011-12-03

Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:

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KF9ZA2011-12-07
RE: Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
They won't be using Homeland Security money buying inflatable towers. They will be using those funds to buy snow cone machines:

http://thedailynews.cc/2011/12/03/montcalm-county-gets-homeland-security-snow-cone-machine/
Reply to a comment by : KC6YFR on 2011-12-04

Here's yet another way to get money from Homeland Security. What police agency could call itself fully prepared without a few of these? And then there's the generator that's necessary. As we've seen in recent events, police forces have been militarized. And once you have all the trappings of the military, the temptation is to use the stuff against the populace.
WB6NCO2011-12-06
Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
If the local police received these towers, perhaps the local politicians could provide the lifting forces in the form of lots of hot air from their speeches.
KC6YFR2011-12-04
Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
Here's yet another way to get money from Homeland Security. What police agency could call itself fully prepared without a few of these? And then there's the generator that's necessary. As we've seen in recent events, police forces have been militarized. And once you have all the trappings of the military, the temptation is to use the stuff against the populace.
K0MU2011-12-04
RE: Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
Could the shape of the tower be modified in the form of a "one finger salute" for those hams in an HOA controlled neighborhood?
Reply to a comment by : K7CB on 2011-12-04

Honestly, too expensive for what it can do. On top of that, you need power to keep the thing inflated. Not really practical in an emergency situation in my opinion. You can get telescoping fiberglass masts that will easily do the same thing for FAR less money.
K7CB2011-12-04
Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
Honestly, too expensive for what it can do. On top of that, you need power to keep the thing inflated. Not really practical in an emergency situation in my opinion. You can get telescoping fiberglass masts that will easily do the same thing for FAR less money.
K0DCH2011-12-03
Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
The tower can only lift 5 pounds as it is inflated, but can support 10 pounds. I am not quite sure how you would install a 10 pound antenna without external lifting equipment. It would be tough to get the tower to lift a multielement array safely. A small vertical or a lightweight wire antenna is about all you could lift. All that for $1200.
KF9ZA2011-12-03
Portable Air-Inflatable Towers:
This is a link to their "less expensive" tower for hams:

http://www.ltaprojects.com/ham.html