Customer Reviews & Photos

I am very very pleased with my 610HD roof tower. It is currently home for my SteppIR UrbanBeam antenna.

After some invaluable assistance from two very strong professional roofers, we are up and running! Congratulations on the Carlson Roof Tower, a very fine example of American engineering and manufacturing.

I absolutely love my Carlson 45HD tower. I have recommended it to several friends. I am a control operator on the YLsystem during the winter months and have told many people of my set up. Right now it has a KIO hexbeam mounted on it. Jim was super easy to work with. Having limited space in my yard, and a limited budget, I found the Carlson tower to be the best option. It was very straight forward to put together and install. My house is an older house and it took a little more effort on my end to prepare the house for mounting. I would highly recommend Carlson Roof Towers to anyone.

I’m extremely pleased with the 45HD tower. I love it! The assembly was straightforward with all necessary parts included. I used lag bolts and 2×4 bracers inside the roof of my shed to secure the base. It’s the perfect size for my setup and has withstood wind storm Derecho and Hurricane Beryl without issue. I have a Yaesu DC-5500 azimuth rotor mounted in the base section with an 1.25-inch mast and thrust bearing. Mounted up top is the elevation unit of the rotor with an M2 LEO-Pack installed for satellite operation. With this setup my son KG5YPD and I both managed to contact NA1SS aboard the International Space Station. Absolutely fantastic! I plan on taking it with us if/when we move to a new QTH.

I just got it up on the roof last week. So far the 815HD is working great! I put a Hex Beam on it. Yesterday I talked to several places, including China and the West coast of Africa on just 100 watts.  I also talked from Idaho to Japan on 5 watts. The tower is super steady and worked perfectly for my roofline.

Finally completely finished the install of your 815HD roof tower. The Mosley TA-33M Yagi antenna is up 30 ft above the ground on a 2″ mast. There’s 13 feet of 2″ DOM steel mast above the thrust bearing. The total length of the mast is 17 ft. I’m in the process of making a very strong 1/8″ steel ring for guy wires that will allow the mast to rotate. I’ll put the guy ring up at about 10 feet above the thrust bearing and attach three 5/16″ Dacron guy ropes to three sides with anchor bolts into the roof trusses. As you can see, there are 10 fifty-pound bags of concrete laid across each of the flat roof mount feet. After a couple of rainstorms, the bags are now solid concrete. 500 pounds.

Everything is working great!

I am very happy with the Carlson 45HD. It is a very well designed and manufactured tower. It was easy to assemble and is very sturdy. I use it for a semi portable satellite station. I have a Yaesu G5500 azimuth-elevation rotator mounted to the tower to position M2 Leo-Pack antennas.

With the correct brackets everything went together fine. I got the tower installed last week with the extra bracing to the rafters in the attic. Yesterday we installed the LFA 7 element 6-meter antenna and everything is working fine. I am really happy with the tower.