I believe your talking about Monopoles that hold the cell antennas. A whole
different animal
than the light pole. You are correct when you say a massive mat and pier or
caisson whichever
it uses.
The company I work for has a little over 1000 Monopoles, SSV, and guyed
towers in Florida
alone. Monopoles are a pain in the butt. They don't have the structural
capability of the
other two. You run out of room fast on the inside running coax ect.
Dave
n4zkf
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Roger (K8RI)
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:53 AM
To: Tower Talk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Highway light poles
Jim Lux wrote:
> Scott W3TX wrote:
>
>> The significant limiting issue for the light poles is the windload
>> and weight they are engineered to carry with regard to the
>> appropriate engineering analysis ie. EIA-TIA-222-F (or G, depending upon
locality).
>>
>
> If you're talking about the poles with a cluster of 8 big luminaires
> up top, I suspect they've got plenty of load margin for antennas.
>
> They're typically mounted to a fairly deep pier or caisson (30 ft deep
> 5 feet in diameter, for one I saw)
>
>
There's a lumber yard in town that has something similar supporting a passel
of cell phone antennas. Like above the pier or caisson is massive and DEEP.
They don't even wiggle in 70 MPH gusts. The one I'm thinking of was limited
to either 160 or 180 feet due to proximity to the airport, but gives good
coverage city wide. Of course if you fly you find these things are like
fleas on a dog. In this flatland towers vary normally between 250 to near
500 feet. Except for the city it's low population density (relatively) and
the towers are spread out quite a ways so they tend toward the taller ones.
Most are conventional guyed or large self supporting structures.
73
Roger (K8RI)
> The base is secured with a dozen or so 2" bolts, so it can take a
> pretty hefty bending load. The base is probably 16-20" in diameter
> (without the flange).
>
>
> They've started installing new freeway signs near where I live, and
> they're of comparable size, not necessarily height, but certainly in
> loads. The post supports a fairly large sign that's cantelievered
> over the road. The sign is a steel truss, 10ft high, 30 feet wide,
> and maybe
> 5 feet thick, with a big flat plane of a sign on it. I'd imagine
> they're designed to take a 0.6g seismic load as well.
>
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