[TowerTalk] re: Elevated guy posts

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Gary,

4" steels pipes?  How thick were the walls and have you had any wind to see
how they held up?

thanks terry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Zaimes AA1K" <jz73 at verizon.net>
To: <garyejones at cmaaccess.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] re: Elevated guy posts


> Gary,
>
> There is lots of info in the Towertalk archives on elevated guy posts.
>
> I started using these at my Bear, Del., QTH around 1981. Those were 4-inch
steel pipes filled with concrete, with about 5 feet in a block of concrete
in the ground and 5 above.
>
> Now I use mostly I beam elevated guy posts. Generally 10 feet long, with 5
or 6 feet in a hole that is 12" diameter and filled with concrete. There's a
photo of two of them on my Web site, www.aa1k.us, under "Towers". I'll try
to get a couple more up in the next few days.
>
> 73/Jon AA1K
>
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