[TowerTalk] Gided/guyded/guided towers

Robert Harmon k6uj at pacbell.net
Thu Sep 16 20:12:18 PDT 2010


It is a "guilded" tower you guys.
By being plated with gold it will be a marvelous shunt fed tower for 160.

Bob
K6UJ

On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Ronnie Carter wrote:

> Hehehe.... that was hilarious!!
> 
> Speaking of illiteracy and spelling creativity, we have cops around here who 
> refer to "guide wires" on a utility pole, as well as someone running off 
> into the "medium" of the interstate...
> 
> Why wouldn't they call the median strip the "small" or the "large?"
> 
> Sorry, couldn't resist!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <n8de at thepoint.net>
> To: "K1TTT" <K1TTT at ARRL.NET>
> Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] gided tower
> 
> 
>> Except it's a GUYED tower.
>> 
>> 73
>> Don
>> N8DE
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting K1TTT <K1TTT at ARRL.NET>:
>> 
>>> That was just a misspelling, later on he spelled it corrected as 'guided'
>>> tower.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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: Danny Pease [mailto:dpease at adams.net]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 21:31
>>>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] gided tower
>>>> 
>>>> I guess a "gided" tower is one that uses "gide wires", not guy wires.
>>>> 
>>>> NG9R
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