Customer Reviews & Photos

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

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.

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.

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.

Everything is working great!

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.

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.

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.