[TowerTalk] Guying a self-supporting tower - Yes

Doug Renwick ve5ra at sasktel.net
Sun Apr 10 11:14:45 EDT 2005


I am willing to give the 'NO Group' a bit more time to present
a case before coming to a conclusion.  No matter how flat a
pancake is - there are still two sides.

What do you do in the absence of your points 1 and 2?  No
manufacturer direction and no engineering analysis.  I suppose
one choice would be to not put up that tower.  The other choice
is to find out what experience others have had.

I think the experience factor should have more weighting than
either points 1 or 2.  Someone here once said "experiment trumps
theory".  If I have sensibly guyed self-supporting Delhi towers
for 35 years without a single failure, I have enough data to
recommend guying in my area.

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow".

Doug/VA5DX

David Robbins K1TTT wrote:

> The only 'sensible' conclusions to this are the following:
> 
> 1. do what the manufacturer says for 'standard' installations
> 2. do what a qualified mechanical engineer who has performed the analysis on
> the specific design says for non-standard installations




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