What surprises me is that one guy wire failure could bring down the whole
tower... isn't there usually some degree of redundancy built into these
tower systems?
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ethan
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 10:21 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] KSYZ Tower Collapse
Steve London wrote:
> http://www.ksyz.com/towerpics.html
>
> Sorry...don't know any details, other than ice loading and wind.
>
> Steve, N2IC
>
A local radio station in my area (WNBY AM & FM)lost their tower last
winter when someone pulling a snowmobile trailer was turning around in
their parking lot and caught one of the guy anchors with the trailer...
the tower fell right on top of the studio and scared everyone inside
half to death, but there were no injuries. Within a week they were back
up and running low power with a rooftop vertical FM antenna and a
longwire AM antenna about 20 feet up. It worked surprisingly well.
Ethan KC8HES
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