>So... what i want to hear are the stories of tower failures. Not bent
>masts and crinkled yagi elements... but the real juicy ones where, for
>example, a well guyed 120' 25G tower with two or three big beams on
>top came down as a result of the tower sections themselves crumpling.
>I want to know what kind of storm and loading abuses were put on the
>tower to make it fall. Now that's practical information!
>
>I bet there arent' too many failures that fit into this category. Guy and
>anchor failures.. or skimping and not guying every 30' or nearby trees
>falling over a guywire are the causes i would expect to see. I also
>wouldn't think many towers fail because of a bad tower base.
>
>Load us up with your tower post mortems. I hear there's 1000 people on
>this reflector, assuming each one knows about 5 tower installations,
>that's 5000 towers... certainly a couple of them fell under interesting and
>NON-OBVIOUS circumstances that we could all learn from.
>
>de KD7LS, bryan
Hi Bryan,
After 44 years in ham radio and watching hundreds of towers very carefully
all of that time, I can't think of a single failure of the type you describe.
I am very interested in what sort of responses you get.
Stan w7ni@teleport.com
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