It does appear to be a home brew design since it looks like it was welded
to the tower.
73,
Jon
KD5SFA
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 05:47 Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/KZTBmNjAo9K7L3ay8
>
> The whole time I've lived at my QTH, there was this guy a few houses up the
> street who ran a TV repair business out of his house. He called it
> Day Nite TV Repair. I took my set to him once back around 1997 and he
> fixed it. No interest in ham radio or any other electronics. All he
> did was TV repair and he had a real nice shop in the back of his
> house. Most of his business came from local schools. He had 40 feet
> of Rohn 25G behind his house with a rotator and TV antenna on top but
> what made it unique was that the top section included this circular
> work platform with a railing making it look like the crow's nest on a
> ship or widow's walk. Never asked him where he got it which was a big
> mistake because I've never seen that in any Rohn catalog and yesterday
> a crew came and took down the tower and put the crow's nest out on the
> curb for a scrap picker to get. I guess the guy went SK. I got some
> photos while it was still there and put a link to them above (which I
> hope works).
> Anyone ever seen one of these?
> I'm guessing it was a custom job he had done at a welding shop.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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