[TowerTalk] Compensating for unequal guy angles

Steven H. Sawyers n0yvy sawyers@inav.net
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:22:49 -0600


The guys must be equally spaced. 

One option to have your PE (and you need one for this) consider is 
four way guying. This will fit the guys into the corners of 150 foot
square. This will give you about 70% guy distance which will work 
for a four way guyed tower.

de n0yvy

At 08:59 PM 2/9/99 -0700, Bill Ingles wrote:
>
>Our club obtained a 150ft tower which must be guyed.  Obtaining a site
>is a problem for us.  A potential free site is a rectangle 350 ft long
>by 150 ft wide.
>What layout can we use for the guys?
>Can we increase the strength of the guy wires or varying tensioning to
>make this site work?
>Thanks
>Bill Ingles
>VE6WSI
>
>
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