[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 117, Issue 19

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

I absolutely disagree, Roger.  I've been 30 (not 40 or 50) feet above 
the last guy on a Rohn 25 tower (while putting it up), and the pucker 
factor was not to be believed.  Besides, if you're putting it up above 
your house, do you want to explain your engineering to the insurance 
adjuster, when the manufacturer says something else?

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 9/9/2012 12:31 PM, Ro Grrr wrote:
> Put up your 40 or 50 feet of Rohn 25 and hang your UH and VHF antennas on itand don't worry about guying it at all.
> I speak from experience on that, as I have put up several 50 foot R25s with no guys and put TH3s and CL33s on them. They have withstood all the storms that came thru Ohio.
> I know that Rohn says to guy them but that's the lawyers speaking for them. A 50 foot R25 is strong and doesn't need guys.
> Roger
> KC8HZ
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> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 14:30:34 +0000
> From: Missouri Guy <n0tt1 at juno.com>
> To: mikflathead at aol.com,TowerTalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] guying a Rohn 25 tower
> Message-ID: <20120909.143034.980.1.N0TT1 at juno.com>
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> Some good info offered by others, but I would add that
> If you have a reasonable choice, you might want to avoid guying
> to the roof.  Sooner or later, if your roof uses say, asphalt
> shingles, it will need replacing.  So then you're faced with
> having to do some temporary guying or some kind of
> work-around.
>   
> 73,
> Charlie, N0TT
>   
>   
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:03:51 -0400 (EDT) mikflathead at aol.com writes:
>> I would like to put up 40-50 feet of 25. It would be behind my
>> single story ranch house. One guy would go towards the rear. The
>> other 2 would head toward the front left and right. The easiest
>> would be to guy to the roof. This tower will be for some vhf and uhf
>> antennas. Your thoughts. Mike 		 	   		
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