[TowerTalk] Octahedron Towers

[Jim Lux]

At 06:58 PM 11/22/2004 -0600, FireBrick wrote:

>On 11/22/2004 6:54:38 PM, Julio Peralta (jperalta at tampabay.rr.com) wrote:
>>It's hard to imagine that someone would go through al the trouble to make
>>their own tower sections when you can buy used Rohn 25 for $25-40 a section.
>>Then you know what you have.
>>Julio, W4HY
>You beat me to it Julio.
>No way you can beat the price, to say NOTHING of all the work just to have 
>something
>that may or may not be designed properly.

Maybe you want the thrill of building it yourself.  Maybe you've got a pile 
of EMT sitting there waiting to be used (EMT  is pretty darn cheap (a 
couple bucks a stick?))?

The basic scheme that's outlined uses 6 vertical struts tied to a 
triangular base and top. The key is going to be how you attach the conduit 
to the triangles.

One could easily design a freestanding tapered tower with this approach 
(think windmill).