[TowerTalk] Tower wind loads

[Jim White, K4OJ]

I bet that it is somewhere between 10 and 30 square foot!

My guess is that it would favor the lower number as it seems these 
things get worser faster with stronger forces (must be a geometric 
progression of some kind...)

Guess from a non-engineer:

17 sf

Okay P.E.'s, how close a guess did I make?

73,

Jim, K4OJ





Bob Gates wrote:
> Sorry for the elementary question, but my knowledge of civil engineering went
> right out of my brain the day I left my last class approximately two life times
> ago.  If you have a tower rated to hold 30sf of antenna at 70 mph, and 10sf at
> 90mph, what correlation, if any, can you draw about the load handling ability at
> 80mph.  Is there a linear relationship, or does it require a whole new set of
> calcs?
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bob KG7KW
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