I am under the impression ,that Phillistran installation guid recommends
appropriate steel/EHS
Guy wire at a safe tamper proof and ground fire height.
I have installed a number of both Phillistran and PollyRod towers, guy /
ground safety hight
Plugged into the total guy equation .
Wayne. W3EA
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On May 24, 2014, at 11:56 PM, "Chuck Smallhouse" <w7cs@theriver.com> wrote:
> A story for those of you using Phillistran cable for guying a tower.
>
> I was talking to a ham that lives in far N. CA, in area that is subject to
> wildfires. A couple of years ago the area had a bad wildfire that moved in
> the direction of his QTH, in a somewhat rural area. Even though the area
> around his home was quite well cleared, they couldn't save his workshop where
> most of his test equipment and ham equipment was located.
>
> When he returned after a mandatory evacuation and surveyed the damage , he
> found that not only was his ham shack destroyed, but also his guyed tower had
> fallen over. It turned out that he had guyed it using Phillistrand and that
> the fire had burned the guys through and which resulted in the catastrophic
> demise of his tower and beams.
>
> I guess that the lesson to be learned is, to at least have the bottom
> sections of your guys be of steel cable and not any type of flammable
> material, especially if you live in a wildfire prone area.
>
> Chuck, W7CS, with no Phillistrand guys .
>
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