[TowerTalk] Dish On A Tower

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Sat May 19 17:07:51 EDT 2007


At 03:11 AM 5/19/2007, JMLTINC at aol.com wrote:
>
>Hello to all,
>
>I am considering using a 10' dish for 1296. I would like to see it up  70'.

To a first order, you're looking at a drag area of 3.14*25 square 
feet (what's that, about 80 square feet?)

In a 80 mi/hr wind (16 lb/sf, roughly) that's going to be 1280 pounds 
of wind drag!

better be a burly tower.






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