[TowerTalk] new tower

Rick Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Fri Jul 13 21:19:02 EDT 2007


I think your calculations assume the tower must be centered
in the lot.  If you offset it to the 1/3 point, you would have 128
feet for the guys.  Probably obvious, but you don't know if you
don't ask.

Rick N6RK


Paul Hemby wrote:
> I would like to install 170 feet of Rohn 45 tower.  The problem is that
> the
> specs call for guy points to be 136 feet.  My lot is only 170 feet wide
> which will give me about 96 feet on each guy point.  Is there anyway to
> elevate the guy points enough, such as using H beam to make this work, or
> increasing the size of the guy cables, pouring additional concrete, etc,
> the
> tower can be bracketed to the poured concrete bond beam on a concrete
> block
> garage at 10 feet if this would help.  Any help or ideas would be
> appreciated.   Thanks Paul WN4AMO
>
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