What is the advantage of a pier pin base?
73's de Mark N1UK G3ZZM
----- Original Message -----
From: "jeremy-ca" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
To: "Paul Hemby" <phemby@hotmail.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, 13 July, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] new tower
> 1. What do you plan to put on it?
>
> 2. Id strongly suggest a pier pin base no matter what sort of guying.
>
> 3. I have 180' of 45G up 17 years and it has withstood hurricanes,
> northeasters, microbursts, severe icing, etc. And that was with a 4 stack
> of
> 40' booms on 20 and 4/4 40M KLM's. I dont even count the several 20' tall
> 2
> way radio sticks, plus the 20' mast and a 38' boom 6M yagi.
> I use 1/4 EHS guys at 70% of height.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Hemby" <phemby@hotmail.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:26 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] new tower
>
>
>>I would like to install 170 feet of Rohn 45 tower. The problem is that
>>the
>> specs call for guy points to be 136 feet. My lot is only 170 feet wide
>> which will give me about 96 feet on each guy point. Is there anyway to
>> elevate the guy points enough, such as using H beam to make this work, or
>> increasing the size of the guy cables, pouring additional concrete, etc,
>> the
>> tower can be bracketed to the poured concrete bond beam on a concrete
>> block
>> garage at 10 feet if this would help. Any help or ideas would be
>> appreciated. Thanks Paul WN4AMO
>>
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