[TowerTalk] Wind area for Rohn tower sections

Dubovsky, George George.Dubovsky at andrew.com
Thu Jul 12 15:27:12 EDT 2007


Clay,

OK, I found my July '87 Rohn catalog, and extracted the following data:

Area (square ft/lin ft)
Rohn 25 - 0.254
Rohn 45 - 0.293
Rohn 55 - 9.334
Rohn 65 - 0.459

I presume this is effective area, but they don't state explicitly. Hope
this helps...

73,

geo - n4ua

> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
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> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:14 PM
> To: R Atkins; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Wind area for Rohn tower sections
> 
> I'm not looking for the antenna wind area that the tower can support.
I'm
> looking for the maximum wind area of the 25G thorugh 65G tower
sections
> themselves.
> 
> > Go here:
> >
> >
http://www.radiancorp.com/ROHNNET/rohnnet2001/catalog/html/gtowers.html
> >
> >
> > Click on the links for each tower model, then look at the guy
details
> for
> > the height and county wind speed rating you are curious about.
> >
> > Note that there are two numbers. one for round elements and one for
> > square.
> >
> 
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