[TowerTalk] Broken Self Supporting Crank Up Tower

[Alan AB2OS]

Perhaps I wasn't clear: a 50' AN Wireless Light Duty tower *will* handle 
the SteppIR in a 100mph wind. To put the antenna that extra 10' higher 
would necessitate going for the Heavy Duty model costing much more.

BTW, since people have referred specifically to Trylon towers, you may 
be interested to see the engineer's report comparing the AN Wireless and 
the Trylon:

http://www.anwireless.com/dc.html

(Of course, the AN Wireless towers are not crank-up, so one might still 
prefer the Trylon.)

Alan AB2OS


On 06/11/04 11:01 pm Bernard(wtrone) put fingers to keyboard and 
launched the following message into cyberspace:

>     If you have ever had a tower come crashing down, you would know that it
> is much better to do the "right" thing up front than have a big mess sitting
> in your back yard.

>>I just came from looking at the specs for the AN Wireless
>>self-supporting towers (www.anwireless.com). I had been thinking of a
>>60' tower to support my 3-el SteppIR (by no means large: less than 7 sq.
>>ft.), but I found that the max. surface area one of their 60' Light Duty
>>models will support with 90mph winds is less than 1 sq. ft.!
>>
>>If I want to put this antenna on a tower in this location (Ottawa Co.,
>>W. Michigan), I must either settle for a 50' Light Duty tower or put out
>>almost $1000 more for the 60' Heavy Duty model. The foundation
>>requirements are different too.