About Us

Magnum Towers Inc. was founded by Pete Smith of P&R Tower Company in 1976.  After installing almost all of the different Midwest and East Coast tower manufacturers products for over 15 years Pete decided it was time to start his own manufacturing company on the West Coast.  Magnum earned a solid reputation in the industry by providing quality custom towers engineered for difficult situations.

Magnum has also gained a reputation for providing a strong corrosion resistant guyed tower using a solid leg design with full 360° welds around each structural member.  Only a few tower companies besides Magnum were using the solid leg design back in the 70s and since then, with only a few exceptions it has now become the industry standard.

Pete’s son Larry Smith took on an active sales role from Magnum’s beginning and eventually became the primary owner and President of Magnum Towers in the early 80s.  During Larry’s first few years as Magnum’s president most of our present sales and management team were hired.  Magnum is still a family owned and operated business with all of the core management and production teams still in place today. 

Jeff Styler our Project Manager and Mark Fabian our Production Manager have been with us continually since 1983; while Lori Morris our Office Manager has been with us since 1987.  Not including the experience of our more recently added team members or the extensive installation experience that Magnum has to draw on these three members alone are able to provide a combined Eight Decades of tower manufacturing experience. 

Pete and Larry continued to work together operating P&R Tower Company and Magnum Towers, Inc. until Pete Smith passed away in 2002.  At that time Larry took over as President of both companies and continued their operations until retiring in 2007.  That same year Larry and his mother Doris Smith sold their shares in the companies to Ron, Jeff and Jason Kardokus, Pete and Doris’ grandchildren and Larry’s nephews.

Ron and Jason took over an active role in the companies after Larry’s retirement.  Ron Kardokus became President of Magnum Towers while Jason became President of P&R Tower Company.  During that time Jeff Kardokus was finishing his 20 year career in the US Air Force.  He has since retired from the Air Force and is now working in the Sacramento office with Ron and Jason.

Ron, Jeff and Jason had all worked summers at Magnum during high school and college.  Ron went on to work as a Project Manager for Keiwit Construction in the late 80s.  Jeff joined the Air Force in the early 90’s and Jason went to work at P&R tower Company full time in 1996.  Ron and Jason eventually started their own successful tower and antenna installation company, Northstar Broadcast Contractors in 2005.

Magnum has been doing very well over the last several years and since our initial entry into Broadcasting as a tower manufacturer we have branched out into several other industries.  We are now providing towers to the wind development industry, the railroad companies, the US Military and other government agencies, the internet/broadband industry and of course the Communications and  Broadcast industries.