[TowerTalk] Guying Self-Supp. Towers

[Cqtestk4xs@aol.com]

Back in the 70s when I get the pucker factor just from thinking about 
climbing a tower, I got hold of the brochures from both Heights tower and Universal.  
Both were makers of non-guyed aluminum towers.

I remember, although the towers were made to be self-supporting, there was a 
guying diagram showing the guying intervals if one decided to guy them.  
Although I think it was the Heights Tower that had guying intervals mentioned, but 
it may have been Universal.  In any case it is one of the few towers that was 
made to be self-supporting, but allowed you to guy if you wanted to.  

Since that time, many years have passed and I have thrown away the literature 
and have just one Heights 64 footer with a KT 34XA on top.  However, I do 
have one set of guys at around 55 feet to stabilize it.  I would rather be on top 
of my 200 footers than be on that one without guys.  Plus, the holes begin to 
egg out after a while from all the flexing without the guys.

Bill  K4XS