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Subject: [TowerTalk] Elevated Guy Anchors
From: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:31:50 +0800
K7LXC wrote:

>>  I plan to install 20' of Rohn 25G on top of this 130' & rotate the 
>>25,  using it as the mast for my VHF+ array; then I'll be able to climb 
>>my mast.

>       I've been through this analysis before since I thought it was a 
>pretty nifty idea too. The problem is that the 25G sections have a lot of 
>windload just by themselves. 

Hi Steve. 
If you have access to back issues of CQ magazine, there is an article in 
May, 1990, "An alternate mast design-simplifying the antenna stacking 
process". It shows how to use a top section of Rohn 25G for a mast. He 
has a KT-34XA sidemounted on it and it looks kinda side heavy, but the 
guy says it works OK. But his is only 10 feet though. 73
Tom W7WHY

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