[TowerTalk] Planning tool query

[David Gilbert]

Certainly.  It works fine for drawing shapes to scale and moving them 
around on a page.  It's only 2-dimensional, of course, but that's not a 
limitation in this case.

73,
Dave   AB7E



Mike wrote:
> Isn't PowerPoint the MS presentation tool, used to create 'slide shows"?
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Dick Dievendorff wrote:
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>>     
>>> I'm contemplating my first guyed tower with side-mounted antennas.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I don't want to spend $4K on an AutoCad license.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Dick, K6KR
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