[TowerTalk] concrete bases for freestanding towers

[David Gilbert]

You need to pause and consider the forces involved.

a.  wind forces directly on a wall are more or less distributed across 
the wall, while wind forces on the tower are applied to a smaller area 
(the house bracket).  That's a big difference.

b.  wind forces on the tower get magnified by the leverage of the 
tower.  That's another big difference.

Simply comparing the surface area of the tower/antennas with the surface 
area of the wall is meaningless.

73,
Dave   AB7E




On 5/14/2011 6:50 PM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley wrote:
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> Goodness!  What are you guys _putting_ on your house-bracketed towers?
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> Why would wind on a thin-member lattice tower and cylindrical-element antennas create more disturbance to framing than wind on a solid wall?
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> Bud, W2RU
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