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Subject: [TowerTalk] Without Benefit of Concrete
From: rhummel@cheshire.net (Robert Hummel)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:03:39 -0400
>> >> I have nearly the same situation you describe. 50' of 25G bracketed
to the
>> >> house. Base is 4 ft in the ground, buried in 1.5-inch crushed stone. No
>> >> guys installed -- none needed. No concrete -- no compression, none
needed.
>> >
>> >Bob, out of curiosity, how many house brackets and at what height?
>OK, but how high is the roof.  :-)

Base to bracket: 30 ft
Above bracket: 10ft flat-top section.
Above flattop: 10ft mast w/tribander
Rotor (CDR-22) about 2ft below flattop
One leg of dipole at 38ft.
Base is 3-4ft below grade buried in 1.5" crushed rock with appropriate
drainage.

Robert L. Hummel (WS1A)
rhummel@cheshire.net


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