[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 85, Issue 62

[K1TTT]

Not here, my soil is official known as 'Peru Loam', "a moderately well
drained soil in stony, acid, glacial till.  Friable fine sandy loam or loam
subsoil underlain by a hard layer at a depth of 18 to 30 inches".

That means, you can dig about 18" and if you don't hit a bolder you end up
in hardpan.  Dig through that stuff, which digs more like concrete than
dirt, and after about 3' you hit glacial sand/gravel deposits that are often
saturated with ground water stuck on top of the bedrock which on my property
is normally 15-20' down.  

But yes, I do have a 60' rohn 25g tower sitting on a roof plate on the
ground with screw anchors for guy points.  That old field day tower has been
in 3 different locations around the house and keeps getting in the way so it
comes down and moves... in one piece, and then goes right back up.  Right
now it has 6m and 2m beams and a 2m/70cm vertical on it.  The biggest
antenna that has been on it was a 6 element 20m telrex monster.  It was on
it for only hours while I twirled it around by hand making pattern
measurements to see how well the YO redesign worked out.

Just remember after the prime directive is the k1ttt directive... do as I
say, not as I do!

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim Jarvis [mailto:jimjarvis at optonline.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 20:22
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 85, Issue 62
> 
> Yeah, but Dave's ground is New England bedrock!
> It's not going anywhere.
> 
> I had 45g up 60' in Vermont, with only two house brackets,  and no
> foundation, too.
> 2' into the ground, we hit a big-ass rock that wasn't going to move.   So
> I
> didn't argue with it...and it didn't, for the 5 years the tower was up.
> 
> The one thing I did was very methodically measure the extent of any
> vertical or horizontal creep.   Until I got tired of measuring no
> change....
> 
> 
> n2ea
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I remember it right, Dave, K1TTT has a tower up without any base,
> just a base plate right on the ground and a set of guy wires.
> >
> > Right, Dave?
> >
> > Hans - N2JFS
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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