to Herr TT Administrator. As far as I am aware I tried to present some reasoning based on engineering knowledge. If you or anyone wants calculations for a specific design or situation, you can contra
$1000 certain placed Un-possible. You have stated a problem where no one could win. By requiring a 'properly designed' tower and 'properly placed' guy wires you could take any example sent and say i
The 'properly' was put in to avoid smart alec situation by someone putting guy wires on 100ft tower at 10ft off the ground and trying to snatch the purse. Implies reasonable situations like lets say
I find myself in the strange situation of agreeing with Yuri on this one! I qualify this by stating that I am merely a mathematician and not an engineer. Engineers like to solve problems, I get my ki
Seems to be an awful lot of air time trying to kill fleas on the elephant. An earlier post is correct that the tower flexibility necessary to engage guy wires is quite missing on self supporting towe
Guy, that was a great discussion -- thanks. When I think of "self supporting," my first thoughts go to crank-ups, since those are the only self-supporting towers I've ever owned. Even the crank-ups a
If the fleas will not go away, what's elephant got to do? Seems some reasons are presented, so I will try to engage one more time. I hope it is shining some light on the problem and will save someone
This make sens to me Guy. (Guess we have the same age.....;) Have not got that much experience using the mathematics i learned once ...since I was active as a after sales manager. I installed what ot
Does that mean that on a 100 foot tower guyed with 3/16 EHS at the recommended tension that those guy wires will be stretching on the order of several inches or more? Frank W2FCA
No, EHS guys are not stretching to give this effect. The guys are not tightened to make them straight, they are tightened to present a certain designed tension on the tower. If you sight down them, y
In a message dated 4/18/03 21:23:02 Eastern Daylight Time, olinger@bellsouth.net writes: << If you sight down them, you will see that they are not pulled "straight-line" taut. They have a certain "bo
http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/radio/math/catenary.htm has some equations to get you started. -- Original Message -- From: <W2fca@cs.com> To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Sent: Friday, April 18, 200
Yes, of course the EHS guys are not stretching (noticeably), but that's not really the point (although it was the original question). It seems to me that the physical extent of the catenary is pretty
Taking one's breath away is a measure of psychological effect. Inches is the physical measure and can be seen with a transit on the ground. These are not self-contradictory statements. The movement o