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[TowerTalk] Guy alignment - friendly wager

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Guy alignment - friendly wager
From: agray@voicenet.com (Alan Gray)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 22:36:12 -0400
And the corollary: Never take your legal advice from an engineer <g>

Alan, W3BV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Fred Hopengarten <k1vr@juno.com>
To: <GIG38@aol.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Guy alignment - friendly wager


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> From:
> Fred Hopengarten  K1VR               781/259-0088
> Six Willarch Road
> Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
> permanent e-mail address:  fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu
> if sending attachments:  k1vr@gis.net
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> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:25:00 EDT GIG38@aol.com writes:
> >
> >Anyone care to help settle a friendly argumentative discussion and 
> >wager on  aligning guy points?
> 
> K1VR:  Trick question. Both methods result in the same degree of
> accuracy.  One method relies on making the tower legs match the three 120
> degree lines, and the other method relies on one string lining up with a
> tower leg.  As the human eye can only see one sight line at a time, you
> are really talking about apples and apples. One line v. one line. Each
> method is equally accurate or inaccurate, the 120 degree lines will be
> fine -- in each method, the challenge is aligning a leg and line.
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> P.S. Never take your engineering advice from a lawyer...
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