[TowerTalk] New to This

[K7LXC at aol.com]

There has been a lot of input to this post -  some of it helpful and some 
of it not quite so helpful.
 
    But the important FIRST things to take into  consideration are: 1) your 
local windspeed rating. (Check 
http://www.championradio.com/county.windspeed.data.html for  TIA-222 ratings for every county in the US. Not the latest 
rev but close  enough.) 2) Your proposed windload. Everything else depends 
on those 2  parameters.
 
    And you should really be reading the UP THE  TOWER book. It'll answer 
90% of your questions. Then when you have specific  questions, the guys on TT 
can give you specific answers. Also available from _www.championradio.com_ 
(http://www.championradio.com) . 
 
Cheers,
Steve     K7LXC
TOWER TECH -
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and
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