[TowerTalk] Tower collapse in South Dakota

[Jim White, K4OJ]

I have heard many people who are NOT hams refer to those thar cables as 
guide wires... if you are not familiar with masts, you probably are not 
familiar with a technique called guying!

It kinda makes sense and sure sounds close to right, I am sure many 
people think they are indeed guide wires... in our own ways hams are 
actually somewhat educated in things others never get involved with - 
gee that makes us a national resource!

Of course we also introduce words like rotor for rotator, etc...

For most of us this acquired knowledge is not even realized which is 
good in that we probably would gasp at the financial outlay we made to 
get it and then probably never see a financial return on it like we 
would insist had it been in the form of a college course or the like!

The "guide wire" remark was heard by me a few weeks ago when my Mom had 
a yard sale and a customer looked in the back yard and said - I saw all 
those "guide wires" but had to look around to see them tall towers you 
had put up - I used to put up them Rohn towers!  [he knew it was Rohn 
55, but also used the term 'guide wire'] - I kinda doubt he wrote the 
specs for the installation of said towers :-)

73,

Jim, K4OJ

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mcduffie at actcom.net wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:10:24 -0400, Roger D. Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Of course! Ever'n knows that them t'awrs is held up by
>>"guide" wahrs.
> 
> 
> You'd be surprised how many people on this list post messages with
> the same word swap.  I don't know if they know the difference or
> not.  As many times as it happens, I doubt it.
> 
> gm
>