[TowerTalk] Force on a dish?

[Jim Lux]

At 07:11 PM 9/3/2006, John D'Ausilio wrote:
>Can anyone point me to formulae for calculating the horizontal load on
>a dish in various positions relative to the wind? Actually, the dish
>is on a vehicle and I'm trying to decide if it's worth my time to
>reconfigure so that the dish is facing backward instead of forward
>during travel.

Almost no difference between those two situations (or none that is generic.)

So, load is going to be v(mph)^2/391 pounds/square foot of cross section.




>  Tower content: it's mounted atop the 20 ft crank-up
>aluminum pole I've mentioned here previously .. but it's cranked down
>during travel :)
>
>de w1rt/john
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