[TowerTalk] Guy wire / Phillystran vibration

Bob Puharic wf3h at ptd.net
Wed Jan 7 02:42:26 EST 2004


Phillystran is fiberglass if I'm not mistaken....Any chance of it 'crazing'
or cracking over the years?

Bob/WF3H
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Guy wire / Phillystran vibration


> I too, have experienced vibration in my Philly elements, but only on my
200
> foot 20 meter tower....and only one of the guys from the 190 foot level.
I
> know it's the guy and not the antennas because I can dampen it with my
hand on
> the ground.  And yes, it is tensioned correctly with the Loos. It's been
doing
> it for six years.
>
> Bill
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