[TowerTalk] Unguyed, with house bracket?

[Jim Lux]

Are you thinking of having a post next to the tower that you'd bolt to?

Post or beam being vertical? Or at an angle?

Don't forget that the house bracket essentially provides bracing in all directions (i.e. in the plane of the wall, the side of a house is pretty stiff, and if the wall you're bolted to is well attached to the adjacent walls, those walls provide the stiffness. )  The house is like a big fairly rigid box sitting on the ground.

Consider it like you had a tower with a base that was 20x20 feet. 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 <faunt at panix.com>
>Sent: Nov 14, 2007 9:49 AM
>To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Unguyed, with house bracket?
>
>So, if someone wanted to emulate a house for a house bracket attached
>unguyed tower, using an I-beam or pipe, what size I-beam or pipe would
>be necessary?
>
>I'm thinking about 2 cubic yards of concrete about 5' deep.
>