Good Morning, This is a follow-up to my previous posting several days ago. We are working with our local municipal, public officials regarding Tower Ordinances. We appreciate the thoughts and advice
Yes, I mean "Allivate" their safety concerns..........Thanks Chuck. -- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts -- multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html messa
Hank, PROPERLY GUYED TOWERS have proven to be very safe, surviving winds of 100+ MPH. Empirical evidence of tornado and huricane tower survivals may support your case. ALL 7 of my towers survived a s
The annoying part of that is, every tree I've ever seen fall, fell it's full height. But no one is restricting the height of trees. So why towers? And as you pointed out, I've seen some mighty big tr
My response would be "Is there a problem that you need to solve?" or why do we need more rules? or why are they discriminating against amateur radio? or why are they taking our land? Peter K5HAB full
One thing I do NOT see often in these collapse discussions, is discussion of the merits of self supporting towers in these tight situations. A guyed tower is made of the same stuff at 0-10 feet as it
I've made this point many times to people, but their prejudice against antennas just wouldn't allow logic to control their thinking :-) In my city, trees with a circumference > 56 inches require a tr
SNIP I saw an 80 ft Heights Aluminum Tower with KT34XA laying in the side street 3 weeks after installation. One of the tapered legs folded in on the base or next to base section. I have never under
My first reaction to this was "what causes guy wires to be missing, anyway?" But trees falling, vandals, errant backhoes, etc. are all valid concerns I guess. Guyed towers can certainly be built with
I've said this before on towertalk, but it seems to me that one tradeoff might be to permit a setback smaller than the guyed tower height IF the guying scheme uses more than one guy anchor per direct
Trees are "grandfathered". Like structures, if they were there before the zoning laws were put in, they get to stay ;^} 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the World HF Contest Station Database at www.pvrc.org
Actually, when a tornado went through my neighborhood in 1988, the fallen trees almost never fell their full height. Instead, they were snapped off at about 12-18 feet off the ground. The one inciden
A tornado is trees being ripped UP. It breaks at the point accumulating most aerodynamic drag and least able to support the weight of the root ball. it's full fallen of one Towers
In our case, the tornado didn't actually touch the ground. (In which case, you would be correct -- upward winds) Near the tornado, there are intense winds with a significant horizontal component. (Ai
Most damage in tornados is from horizontal wind component. There is very little upward component in the typical tornadic vortex flow. The horizontal wind picks things up and throws them, rolls them,