[TowerTalk] Questions about Tower Maintenance

[EUGENE SMAR]

Gary et al:

     An opportune time to remind all about Mark N1LO's great tome on antenna
and tower references:  http://www.qsl.net/n1lo/towers.txt .  Probably as
close to anything as you'll come to a real textbook on the subjects of tower
design, installation and maintenance.

     Be advised - it's a large text file so it will take a while to download
on all but the fastest of connections.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stone, Gary R." <Gary.Stone at med.va.gov>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Questions about Tower Maintenance


Hi to all,



This is N5PHT, Gary.  I am looking for some very specific steps to adjusting
guy wires on a tower.  I have a RG45 up 80 feet.  It is the pier / pad
construction. I would like to be able to adjust the guys with step by step
instructions (for dummies like me).   What guy do you start with, etc.  I
have a handheld device to measure the tension and I have read that the
tension should be around 10% (which would be 650 lbs inch I believe).  The
installer came back and tweaked things a couple times after settling but I
would like to learn to do the maintenance myself.   I am using Phillystran ¼
inch and the tower is guyed in two places with 3 guys per common
installation.



A tutorial on this type of tower maintenance I would be great?  Also, any
other maintenance instructions?



I had lots of loading questions, etc. early on and now the tower has been up
about 2 months and doing well.  Thanks for all the help from the group.  It
has a 40 foot Optibeam and a smaller Force 12 (with about 32 sq. feet
total).  The Optibeam and the Force12 are about 12 feet apart.  I had some
rotator problems but I hope that is now worked out all ok.



Gary Stone, N5PHT





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