[TowerTalk] Telephone Pole

[edie & saul abrams]

Take a look at some of the pictures from the major ice storm in northern NY
last year and you will see thousands of the poles, all wired together and
thus guyed together, snapped like little twigs because of the ice load on
the wires.  Of course, the lattice power towers also wired together were
twisted like pretzels--but they didn't snap. 73  Saul  K2XA  Albany, NY


At 07:50 AM 1/22/00 -0800, GALE STEWARD wrote:
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>--- DavidC <eDoc@netzero.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Ted:
>I would also like to hear the reasons as there about a
>trillion of these stuck in ground all over the world. 
>Could they really be worse than any other type of
>support?
>
>73, Stew K3ND
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>> Lightning experts recommend against the use of
>> telephone poles.
>> Even if copper strapping is used to provide an
>> artificial lightning
>> ground.  I don't understand the entirety of the
>> objection but it
>> seems a pretty universal recommendation-to-avoid.
>> 
>> Perhaps someone on the list could explain this
>> better?
>> 
>> - Thanks! & 73, DavidC  K1YP in Hudson, FL
>> 
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