KL7D has 100' of 25G with the tilt-over section at 60'. On
top is a KLM tri-bander, and above is a 40 meter beam of
some sort. This is on a city lot with compromised guying,
and in the years I've known him, it has never been a problem.
He has had it down to rebuild the KLM a couple of times,
but the tower has stood some fairly good storms with no
damage.
Rohn 25G is darned good material. The 2-way industry uses
them up to 200' with large co-linears on top. (A DB-228 is
40 feet long and weighs around 130 lbs), and if you cruise
around your local area, you'll probably see some of these in use.
Most failures come from poor deadmen or other guying failures.
Do the guying right, and you'll have a good system for my
lifetime.
de KL7HF
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From: Madison R. Jones[SMTP:w5mj@hal-pc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 6:21 AM
To: Rick Bullon
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rohn 25
Rick Bullon wrote:
>
> With all the discussion about Rohn 25 and windloading etc. You have
> almost convinced me that trying to fold over my Rohn 25 tower not only
> isn't going to work but that the tower is only good for uhf vhf
> antennas!!!
> Well I guess the TH6 is going to stay in the barn for another 3 or 4
> years and I get to keep using my Butternut vertical for my only antenna.
> It is ashame too as I have 5 empty acres and all I can do is a lousy
> vertical makes me lose all incentive to upgrade
> Not flaming anyone just upset that I can't do anything better that
> what I have. It wouldn't be so bad if I lived on a small city lot
> 73
> Rick
> kc5ajx (tech plus forever)
>
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