I have a question pertaining to my Hy-Gain HG52SS tower or any other tower of this type for that matter. The question: Does anyone have a model or has anyone attempted to model the wind loading of th
I haven't done this analysis, John, but when I posed a similar question to Karl Tashjian at Tashjian Towers (old Tri-ex), he told me something surprising. On the Tashjian LM470, the wind rating actua
Mike raises some interesting points.. (and ones that would be hard to analyze, too) Also, consider: 1) When the tower is nested, it might have more wind drag per unit length than when extended. The p
Frank Travanty, W9JCC, has written an Excel spreadsheet and an accompanying article which I have used for my TX-472MDP tower. It does just what your looking for in terms of allowing you to graph your
I have a question pertaining to my Hy-Gain HG52SS tower or any other tower of this type for that matter. The question: Does anyone have a model or has anyone attempted to model the wind loading of th
Frank Travanty, W9JCC, has written an Excel spreadsheet and an OR you can go to http://www.arrl.org/qexfiles/ and download the file labled TRANVITY.ZIP. Also download the following pdf file which giv
Google W9JCC. The spreadsheet is up on a website in zip form. 73, Jim _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@
Thanks for all the replies and offers of information and spreadsheets. I now have the files and am getting the July issue of QEX where the article, written by W9JCC was published. I knew the informat