In a 110 MPH wind I will be up anyways! HI HI
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Dave Armbrust - AE4MR
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> From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bob Otto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:33 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re[2]: [TowerTalk] Tower concerns
>
>
> Hello Group,
>
> Bill said: "That's the one thing I realised after reading TowerTalk a
> couple of years. If you want to put a tower up right, it's going to
> cost you, but you'll end up with something that won't keep you awake
> on stormy nights."
>
> To that I say AMEN!!
>
> 73 from.......
>
> Bob Otto
> N8NGA@one.net
> Cincinnati, Ohio
>
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> Tuesday, January 16, 2001, 2:44:48 PM, you wrote:
>
> BC> On 1/15/01 4:43 PM, rmoodyg@juno.com at rmoodyg@juno.com wrote:
>
> >>Seems to me that the gist of all this is that those of us who live in
> >>Florida or
> >>on the Gulf coast can't have an antenna larger than a rubber duckie on
> >>top
> >>of any reasonably tall tower.
>
> BC> It has to be a really STOUT tall tower to support more than a rubber
> BC> duckie. Some towers wouldn't even support themselves at 110 mph.
>
> >> I see all these ads for towers with X
> >>number
> >>of square feet of antenna at 50 mph! What a joke.
>
> BC> Absolutely. There's no where in the country that isn't at
> least 70 mph.
> BC> 50 mph capacities are meaningless. The reason these companies don't
> BC> publish 70 mph figures is their antenna capacities would be
> BC> embarrassingly small.
>
> BC> So, instead, hams are encouraged to massively overload their towers.
>
> >> My unguyed, house
> >>bracketed, 40 foot Rohn 25 has been up for the last 20+ years. I don't
> >>have a permit, (A bad idea, I agree) and it's made it through
> Andrew and
> >>a couple of lesser hurricanes.
>
> BC> So, when the tower DOES fail, even though you've been lucky
> for 20 years,
> BC> and does damage, are you SURE your insurance company will pay to fix
> BC> everything?
>
> >>When I looked at the Rohn catalogue when I
> >>bought the tower, I realized that getting it approved would be
> >>impossible, so
> >>I didn't try. What's a feller to do?? I sympathize with anyone trying
> >>to put up
> >>any kind of stick here or wherever the county wind figure is 110 or
> >>higher.
>
> BC> I sympathize, too. But you can do things. You can properly
> engineer your
> BC> tower. You can put up a shorter tower than you thought. You
> can put up a
> BC> much more robust tower than you thought.
>
> BC> That's the one thing I realised after reading TowerTalk a couple of
> BC> years. If you want to put a tower up right, it's going to
> cost you, but
> BC> you'll end up with something that won't keep you awake on
> stormy nights.
>
>
>
>
> BC> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
> BC> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> BC> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
>
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