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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