[TowerTalk] OH8X 80-160 monster tower collapses

[Richard Solomon]

If you mess up in the military, they ship you off to the Arctic ...
but if you mess up in the Arctic, where do they send you ??

HI HI

73, Dick, W1KSZ


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Roger D Johnson <n1rj at roadrunner.com>wrote:

> This reminds me of a story I heard when I was stationed at the CG LORAN
> station in Sylt,
> Germany. The Norwegians manned a LORAN station on the island of Jan Mayen
> which
> had a 625ft tower as transmitting antenna. This antenna had stood for many
> years with-
> standing everything the Arctic weather could throw at it. Then one Summer
> a new engineer
> was sent to do the annual tower inspection. He determined that the guy
> tension was too
> high and ordered it reduced. Needless to say, that Winter the tower iced
> up and came down!
>
> Engineers can get it wrong too!
>
> 73, Roger
>
>
>
> On 12/9/2013 1:30 PM, Kelly Taylor wrote:
>
>> 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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