If I have a tower of a specific fixed height that I will be erecting,
and I have plenty of room to do so, I would estimate that I should
gain *some* additional strength against wind-load by moving the
guy radius from 80% of height to 100% of height, since this will
move the guy angle closer to horizontal and reduce the down
force on the tower and increase the horizontal back-force for
a given guy tension and a given stretch in a guy due to motion
of the tower.
Can anyone comment from either a practical experience or
engineering point of view whether this estimate is sound?
73,
Dorn Hetzel
KB4EQ
kb4eq@hetzel.org
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