- 1. best tower direction in prevailing wind (score: 1)
- Author: kalepa@maui.net (Jonathan Starr)
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 07:49:20 -1000
- What is the best direction to face a guyed tower in an area with strong prevailing winds from one particular direction ? Should one leg of the tower face the wind, allowing one guy to take the load,
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-02/msg00321.html (7,302 bytes)
- 2. best tower direction in prevailing wind (score: 1)
- Author: n4kg@juno.com (T. A. Russell)
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:22:13 EST
- it is evident that the load carried by the guy wires IS EXACTLY EQUAL with the wind coming in-line with a single guy or bi-secting a pair of guys. The WORST CASE is if the wind is in line with a FAC
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-02/msg00325.html (7,230 bytes)
- 3. best tower direction in prevailing wind (score: 1)
- Author: w5fl@flash.net (Wendell - W5FL)
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:10:28 -0600
- -- Jonathan, There can be as many guying configurations as you can think of. The = most used and cheapest is three guy anchors. The strongest resultant = force vector is in line with one of the ancho
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-02/msg00327.html (8,396 bytes)
- 4. best tower direction in prevailing wind (score: 1)
- Author: n4kg@juno.com (T. A. Russell)
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 09:34:31 EST
- Pat, I believe you have misconstrued each point I made. I did NOT say the tension in each guy was equal. Let me re-phrase my comment: If the wind comes from an angle that exactly bisects two guy wire
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-02/msg00335.html (10,329 bytes)
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