Have you given any thought to SAFETY?
What if a gust of wind comes up and the tower
blows over on top of someone walking by?
I strongly suggest you consider stouter anchors
for your FD tower. I know a guy who broke an
ankle and some leg bones riding a tower down
that was guyed to a small bush whose roots
had rotted out. I could see something like that
happening with your tent stake guyed tower.
Please don't tell me you use 1/4 inch nylon rope
go guy the tower.
Regarding the K4BFT towers, antennas, rotors,
and installation trailer, yes, all of that stuff belongs
to the club and is available in short order.
Some of the BIG clubs put up even bigger stuff,
such as 20M stacks and 40M beams at 100 ft.
The FD rules DO allow for pre-assembly of the
stations.
Tom N4KG
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 "Rick Bullon" <kc5ajx@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > > Regular tent stakes were used to guy the tower with.
> >
> >Tent stakes? You mean those 10 inch angular pieces of
> >thin metal or plastic? I hope NOT !
> >
> Yes that is what we used the little 10" metal tent stakes. I few
> times we used some pieces of rebar. The field day site is very open
> few trees and nothing else. The tower was setup far enough away
> from the operating positions that if it fell all that would be hurt
was
> the antenna. This is a field day operation and temporary. If this had
> been an actual emergency what you have all the stuff your club used
> to put up the antennas? After all isn't that was field day was
intended
> to do practice for an emergency :-)
> 73
> Rick
> KC5AJX
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