[TowerTalk] Taller tower, shorter mast or vice versa?

[Tower (K8RI)]

> Jim Chaggaris wrote:
> >
> > I would put up the 70' tower...Tell the inspector if he wants to verify
the
> > height to get a tape measure and...START CLIMBING!"
> >
> > 73's Jim KJ9A
>
> Won't a now commonly available laser sighting device readily
> measure the height without climbing a single rung?

Doesn't even take that.  Tape measure to the base of the tower and a
protracter, or transit. You know the base and two angles so you can easily
compute the height.

Or you can skip the computing and just move out from the tower base until
the angle from that position to the top is 45 degrees.  Then the tower
height will be the same as the distance from the base.
>
Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com
> Integrity always seems the best choice and in this case once
> lost it may cost you more in future distrust from neighbors
> and officials than it is worth.
>
> Meet the letter of the law and sleep well.  It's just a hobby.


>
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