[TowerTalk] Tower in the attic!

[thompson@mindspring.com]

I agree with Gary (as below):

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Looked at the article last night (but didn't read it yet).  What am I
missing?  It would appear that the guy wasted a section of tower.  Why
not put the rotor on the attic floor, where the base of the tower is
anchored, and run the same mast through the roof in the same manner
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The strength is in the mast not the tower section. In a wind this will bend
if the material is like schedule 40 water pipe.   I don't
know if the top sleeve of the tower helps the rotor (normally it dampens the
side moments not the vertical moments) but the C-3S
is so small not to push any rotor of the Ham-M type.   Two reasons I see.
1.    No tower on top of the house,
2.    The weight is distributed over a supported floor to four points.

Still we need ideas such as this until the time that XYL's and CC&R's don't
restrict towers.

Dave K4JRB



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