> Also bear in mind that solid aluminum rods aren't a very
good model for
> lattice work antenna structures (nobody is building 60 ft
aluminum towers
> using a 1 ft diameter bar...) There's a lot of scaling
here that would
> need to be taken into account (the whole 30 ft high ant
would collapse
> under its own weight problem because mass goes as the cube
and strength
> goes as the square problem)
Nearly all self support towers are considerably wider than
guyed towers where the stress is maximum, so if anything the
guyed tower is more like the thin rod.
73 Tom
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