[TowerTalk] Help With First Tower

[K8RI]

On 5/6/2012 9:36 PM, Tod Olson wrote:
> I went back and read the original e-mail.
>
> It said 130 mph maximum gust. I am pretty sure that meeting the most
> recent spec for the area in Idaho that I placed the the tower the maximum
> wind gust specification was at least 120 MPH. The county spec is 70 mph as
> I recall.
>
> I am sure that other readers can give more accurate data with respect to
> the ratio between the county value and the extreme maximum value.
>
> Tod, K0TO

130 MPH rating?  Man, there isn't much that'd survive that.  That is 
right at the high end of an EF2 tornado or just under where it becomes 
and EF3.

73

Roger (K8RI)


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> On 5/6/12 5:31 PM, "Mark Robinson"<markrob at mindspring.com>  wrote:
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>> 130 mph...will your house even survive that  I wonder.
there are no hard and fast rules, but probably not. Not much stays 
standing at that speed.
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>> Mark N1UK
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>>> Hoping to see where Wayne lives, I looked in QRZ.
>>> He doesn't come up in the search.
>>> 130MPH?
>>> That's a very rare gust and a little work with statistics might reduce
>>> it.
>>> If you get 130, there will be problems bigger than a tower loss!!
>>> WL
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