[TowerTalk] misaligned vertical towers

[Don Moman VE6JY]

Simple - make your own vertical "standard" with a plumb bob suspended from
something (a step ladder perhaps) out maybe 50 or 100 feet away from the
base and that will tell you which is vertical....

73 Don
VE6JY

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Steve K7AWB <k7awbgoog at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have two towers up.  A 90 foot Rohn 45 with a 6-el 20 meter beam on it
> and
> a 102 foot Rohn 25 without anything on it yet.  Both are guyed.  In putting
> them up, a group of us used a Loos tension meter and our eyesight at the
> bottom of each tower to make them vertical.
>
> But when I look and align the two towers next to each other by walking
> around until they are "next" to
> each other, one or both are off vertically with respect to each other.
>
> How do I figure which is straight and which is off or maybe both are
> slight off?
> I really don't want to climb them now in the bad weather and drop a plumb
> bob and do not have a survey level.  They are really 135 feet apart.
>
> 73
> Steve Sala
> K7AWB
> DN17es
> Nine Mile Falls, WA
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