[TowerTalk] Concrete anchors

[Bud Rogers]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 08:41, Keith Dutson wrote:
> The 80 percent figure is one component of the wind load rating of the
> tower and guy system.  One could re-calculate the wind load rating
> resulting from a change in this component.  I could do this but it
> would take a long time since my physics is quite rusty.  But, the
> point is that the guy system could be beefed up to achieve the same
> wind loading with less radial distance of the anchor to the tower
> base.

I have often wondered if the opposite is true.  If space is not a 
problem, would extending the guy anchors out give a better wind rating?

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Bud Rogers  <budr at netride.net>  KD5SZ  EM05vb