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1. [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Russell Hill" <rustyhill@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:30:47 -0500; Hello All: I am curious about the substantial and tall light poles seen along interstates and various interchanges. They look to have internal cables, both mechanical and electrical, and could be in; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00416.html (7,597 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Scott W3TX" <superberthaguy@verizon.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:46:20 -0400; The significant limiting issue for the light poles is the windload and weight they are engineered to carry with regard to the appropriate engineering analysis ie. EIA-TIA-222-F (or G, depending upon; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00418.html (7,093 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:23:44 -0700; They're a lot taller than 100 ft in some cases.. 200ft is available, as I recall. You could easily put a rotator on the platform and hoist it up. A couple or three years ago, I tracked down several o; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00419.html (8,356 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:27:39 -0700; If you're talking about the poles with a cluster of 8 big luminaires up top, I suspect they've got plenty of load margin for antennas. They're typically mounted to a fairly deep pier or caisson (30 f; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00420.html (8,337 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:53:21 -0400; There's a lumber yard in town that has something similar supporting a passel of cell phone antennas. Like above the pier or caisson is massive and DEEP. They don't even wiggle in 70 MPH gusts. The on; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00423.html (9,646 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:24 +0100; I have written user instructions for a road traffic management company that used the 40ft poles for camera installations. The same thoughts about ham antennas passed through my mind too, but I didn't; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00424.html (8,715 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:15:12 -0500; If you want one of those real tall expressway interchange light poles you should expect to have a highway dept.size budget. My guess that they are NOT cheap is based on a price check of flagpoles, wh; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00434.html (8,940 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Alex Malyava" <alex.k2bb@gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:46:52 -0400; GMail is smart enough to place "content-sensitive" ads while you read your emails. This time it gave me an ad of "Flagpoles shipped direct" - http://www.aflag.com/sizing.asp they ask $4...7K for 60-8; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00438.html (8,550 bytes)
9. [TowerTalk] Highway Light Poles (score: 1): Author: "Russell Hill" <rustyhill@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:01:38 -0500; Many thanks to all those who sent answers. Several sent specific price thoughts, which were that the highway light poles, as well as the BIG flagpoles, are just too expensive to use in Ham Radio. Aft; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00440.html (8,091 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: <n4zkf@n4zkf.com>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:19:52 -0400; I believe your talking about Monopoles that hold the cell antennas. A whole different animal than the light pole. You are correct when you say a massive mat and pier or caisson whichever it uses. The; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00442.html (11,376 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: Pat Barthelow <aa6eg@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:55:03 -0700; A Google Search of Stadium Lighting brings some interesting results re tall lighting poles as found in stadiums. At Monterey Peninsula College, their Football field had massive 100 footers that I onc; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00452.html (14,254 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "David Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:54 -0400; Most of the new highway light poles (at least around Atlanta) are what a GA Power Engineer calls composite poles. These are a combination of concrete and a metal. They are not crank up but come in 40; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00461.html (9,978 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:40:02 -0400; Earlier I mentioned the cell tower at the lumber yard that is on a steel pole with the huge concrete casing (Think it's a bout 30 deep by about 12' in diameter. (Maybe more.) The base of that thing i; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00464.html (10,982 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:19:19 -0700; Since all these schemes require some amount of "engineering" (i.e. it's not like a radio tower where it comes with a set of sealed drawings including the installation method), one could probably have; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00467.html (11,507 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles (score: 1): Author: "Russell Hill" <rustyhill@earthlink.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:14:31 -0500; Thanks to all for their thoughts, both on and off the reflector. Except for Utility company surplus yards, it appears as though those light poles are expensive and big enough to be unusable at (my) h; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00489.html (16,970 bytes)

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