Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Plumbing a 100' 45G

Rick Bowden ki5vz@flash.net
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:09:20 +0000


Only if there is no wind !!
73's
Rick KI5VZ

Dick Flanagan W6OLD wrote:

> >From: mcduffie@scottsbluff.net (Gary McDuffie, Sr.)
> >
> >On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:22:38 -0800, Jim wrote:
> >
> >> Why not climb to the top of the sections that are installed and drop
> >>a plumb
> >> line down one of the tower legs.
> >
> >Is there such a place that the wind doesn't blow to make this
> >impossible?  Certainly no place I've lived!
>
> The standard approach is to run the plumb line more than an inch away
> from the chosen leg and then place the bottom weight in a bucket of
> water to tampen the swings.
>
> 73, Dick
>
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