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Yeah Joe, 30' was plenty high for me even with a belt. In college, we had a 30' attached to the side of our dorm's elevator riser shaft, and this was 16 floors up! We had an old tribander up top, and needless to say, QRP DX was great!!! (upped the # on the DXCC QRP endorsements quick)

Bill, you should not have problems finding someone to take the antenni off of your hands locally. And 25G is not cheap these days either. I see they went with a top plate and a short throw to the shelf. I always liked a tapered top joint, thrust brearing on top, then bring the mast lower into the tower. Check around, some hams might even disassemble it for you as a trade-out for some of the parts. We took down many commercial installations long ago, and got tons of 25 & 45. Great towers still.