[TowerTalk] ma550 question - Yikes!
K7LXC at aol.com
K7LXC at aol.com
Fri Sep 15 08:38:07 EDT 2006
In a message dated 9/14/2006 5:27:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:
> I wouldn't want to depend on the "automatic lowering" system to
protect me and/or my neighbors either, but ... it HAS been done...with
a building permit. I know a ham that has an MA850 with a MonstIR on
top. His neighbor's property is probably < 50 feet from his tower
base. He was required to install an "automatic lowering" system that
would guarantee that it was nested any time the windspeed was > (I
think) 25mph. I was shocked when I heard that the city ok'd this, but
it has been done :-)
How did it ever get calc'ed out for a 225# antenna?!? I'm shocked
too. It must not be a stock MA850 or there's something going on we don't know
about.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
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