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Subject: [TowerTalk] MAST
From: k6ll@juno.com (David O. Hachadorian)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 21:55:09 EDT
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:03:24 -0700 Ken Fisher <kfisher@inreach.com>
writes:

>I have attached a url with a pic of my stacked beams klm 20m-6 with
>a klm 40m-4 over it. The mast is aluminum t-6061 3/8 wall 14' sticking
>out of the tower. No problems Cost was appx $130 for the mast. Ken  
>W6FK

If that is a 2" O.D. 6061-T6 mast, my calculations predict
failure at 55 miles per hour if the wind is in line with the
two antennas. You have been lucky so far. 

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
K6LL@juno.com


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