[TowerTalk] [MWA] OH8X 80-160 monster tower collapses

[Kelly Taylor]

I offer my condolences to Radio Arcala, but I have a question about that
explanation: shouldn't the engineering of the tower system have accounted
for the possible failure of a windload-mitigation system?

Does anyone know: was it insured?



73, kelly
ve4xt


On 12/9/13 11:43 AM, "Larry Menzel" <pensionguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> A sad day in Finland, the fantastic, now doomed, 330ft monster tower for 80
> and 160 had a catastrophic failure during a high wind storm in September.
> Apparently the engineering spec called for an automated feature to turn the
> massive array for minimum windload failed, allowing the whole structure to
> "corkscrew" and collapse on itself.
> 
> Here's a link: http://dx-world.net/2013/oh8x-tower-collapse/
> 
> Larry, W0PR
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