[TowerTalk] Planning tool query

[Mike]

Isn't PowerPoint the MS presentation tool, used to create 'slide shows"?

73, Mike NF4L

David Gilbert wrote:
> PowerPoint should work fine.  It isn't exact (and neither will anything 
> else be when you take into account antenna elements blowing in the 
> wind), but it would easily be accurate enough for what you want.  Just 
> use the ruler scales to proportion your tower/guys/antennas and move 
> them around until you get what you want.
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
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> Dick Dievendorff wrote:
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>> I'm contemplating my first guyed tower with side-mounted antennas.
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>> What sorts of planning tools do people use to determine if the antennas of
>> various turning radii will clear guy wires? 
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>> In my planning efforts I'll be contemplating several "what if" sorts of
>> questions. I think I can do this with (a lot of) graph paper and a spread
>> sheet and some basic trig, but I'm hoping for something that might be more
>> visual.
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>> I don't want to spend $4K on an AutoCad license.
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>> Dick, K6KR
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