[TowerTalk] Guying a self-supporting tower - Yes

[Steve Maki]

R. Kevin Stover wrote:

> This has been an interesting discussion.
> 
> One question comes to mind though.
> 
> If you've got the room to properly guy a self supporting tower, meaning 
> 80% of total height, why wouldn't you go ahead and install regular 
> R25/45/55 or the like?
> 
> Seems to me that self supporting towers are used when you lack the room 
> necessary to properly guy, aesthetics, etc....

Of course. But that's not what were on about here. It's a
reaction to the oft repeated flat out statement that guying
compromises the integrity of a self supporter, without, AFAIK,
a single documented case of this actually happening, and without
any analysis to support that opinion.

Note that there are many already installed self supporters
out there whose owners might be interested in this.

Steve K8LX