[TowerTalk] Calculations

[Alan C. Zack]

My accepted wind calcs reference IBC 2000 Wind load UBC Sec 1618 and 
UBC Tables 16.  I am not sure but my Bldg Inspector seemed to think 
this was the same requirements as shown in UBC-97 but just contained 
in a different section of IBC-2000.  IBC-2000 has a special section 
regarding towers.  I don't know this for sure .

Richard (Rick) Karlquist (N6RK) wrote:

  > A possible reason would be that IBC-2000 might be a stricter spec,
> and the tower is not engineered to meet that spec, at least with
> a usable antenna area on top.  Does anyone know if IBC-2000 is a
> tighter spec, or just a different calculation algorithm?
> 
> Rick N6RK

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Alan Zack
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