Eric:
This entire project sounds too "iffy" - lots of back-of-the-envelope
calculations, opinion, conjecture, don't want to/can't spend money for a
proven solution (crane), etc. All obtained over the anonymous Internet. I
urge you to rethink this project and consider abandoning any approach other
than a professional tower crew to design and execute what you need. It
sounds as if the public will be around this thing during the event and that
could spell disaster if it ever falls.
I hope you take my comments in the same vein in which they were given:
friendly advice from a colleague who doesn't want anyone hurt.
GL es 73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Schurman <eric_schurman@hotmail.com>
To: WD4K@bellsouth.net <WD4K@bellsouth.net>; K7LXC@aol.com <K7LXC@aol.com>;
n3rr@erols.com <n3rr@erols.com>
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Temporary tower use
>>Seems to me that if the only thing needed in the air is a small light
>>beacon, why not just use one or more weather balloons? Tether it out
>
>I investigated this approach. I could not find any balloons that will
handle
>more than a ten mph wind. I can pretty much expect 50 mph winds to come up
>at some point during the week. They tend to come on pretty suddenly too. I
>know this is pretty high wind to be expecting, but I thought that I would
be
>in OK shape because I would not have the 10-15 square feet of antenna at
the
>top of the tower that the 25G towers seem to be designed for.
>
>-eric
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