[TowerTalk] Re: TORQUE ARMS

[Steven H. Sawyers n0yvy]

By the time the tower rotates far enough to have the torque arms
do any good you have already used up most of the allowable lattice
strength. Commercial installations don't use "torque arms" as hams
do, they use things like the TA25 Torque Arm Stabilizer to get 6 guys 
to 3 anchors. Only the ones they use fasten onto the tower a lot 
better than the TA25 does and have more iron in them.

Lots of commercial installations have 8 and 12 foot dishes side mounted 
to a tower, but they use the six guys to take up the torsional load
and not feed it into the whole tower length.

de n0yvy steve

At 06:45 PM 8/22/98 -0600, T A RUSSELL wrote:
>
>
>On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:46 "Steven H. Sawyers n0yvy" <sawyers@inav.net>
>writes:
>>
>>At 10:14 PM  8/21/98, Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>Why no torque arms?    
>
>>
>>They don't do any good and are a waste of time and money.
>>
>>de n0yvy steve
>>
>
>Steve,  
>
>I am confused by this response.  How did you come to this 
>conclusion?  Kindly provide your  evidence.
>
>I invite you  to climb 120 ft of Rohn 25 guyed WITHOUT torque arms
>and then climb 120 ft of R25  WITH torque arms and tell me there is 
>NO  DIFFERENCE.   I don't buy it.   Anyone else have an opinion?
>
>de  Tom  N4KG
>
>
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