[TowerTalk] Tower Collapse - New Kensington, PA @ K3MJW

[WA3GIN]

Yup...I know.  I took down 100ft of Rohn 25 for an old timer. He had a pair of stacked 8 element 2m beams on top and under them a Cushcraft A3. The tower was guided with aluminum ground wire at the 75ft and 50ft level. Nothing else. It was up for about 20yrs...you could pull on the aluminum wire and the entire tower would move...scary!

Well I hope the club gets a new tower and has another good 50 years.

Happy Anniversary,
dave
wa3gin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles Mills 
  To: WA3GIN 
  Cc: Towertalk 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse - New Kensington, PA @ K3MJW


  Tower had been up a long time.  Would still be there if the guy wire hadn't been compromised.

  It was an old tower - probably as old as the club itself and we're celebrating our 50th anniversary this year.  Whether it was spec'd for that or not is a mystery.  We got almost 50 good years out of it though.

  Chuck / W3YNI


  On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM, WA3GIN <wa3gin at comcast.net> wrote:

    Hmmm,

    Doesn't look like that tower was spec'd to go 100ft, esp. with the number of antennas attached.

    Better Luck Next Time,
    wa3gin


    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Mills" <w3yni1 at gmail.com>
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    Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:09 PM

    Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse - New Kensington, PA @ K3MJW



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  Amateur Radio Callsign W3YNI
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