[TowerTalk] guying a Rohn 25 tower

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Good point about the self-supporting tower.  It takes more concrete for 
the base, but with a guyed tower, the needed guying hardware and 
concrete for three guy points as well as the minimal base can run into 
quite a bit of money.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 9/9/2012 9:17 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> There can be a lot of pressure on the guy wires of a 50 Rohn 25G tower.
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/RTTY/2012-09/msg00022.html  I
> would either arrange the anchors so that you don't need to use the roof, or
> install a self supporting tower.
>
> John KK9A
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> Subject:[TowerTalk] guying a Rohn 25 tower
> From:mikflathead at aol.com
> Date:Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:03:51 -0400 (EDT)
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> 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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