[TowerTalk] Philly installation

[Cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/31/2009 10:17:31 PM Greenwich Standard Time,  
jimlux at earthlink.net writes:

Nothing  says you have to tension the cable to a particular fraction of 
it's  breaking strength. It's more a matter of the desired tension for  
appropriate stability for the structure.  You could tension million  
pound breaking strength cable to the same few hundred pounds as the the  
regular non-EHS cable.


I've found that unless you tighten to specs, the tower is  "sloppier" and 
has more play.  The sloppiness allows wind gusts to have  more of an effect 
on the tower.
 
Again, the prime directive is in effect here.  I believe the  Rohn book 
calls for specified tensioning.
 
Bill KH7XS