[TowerTalk] H-beam for elevated guy

john at kk9a.com john at kk9a.com
Wed Feb 12 12:05:17 EST 2014


If you believe K5IU, you need a lot of concrete to do this properly. I
used them in Aruba, but I cannot remember the beam size.  The ground was
hard coral/rock and I did not use a large amount of concrete.  There is a
nice summary of elevated anchors by WE9V in of all places the towertalk
archives: http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/1998-03/msg00209.html

John KK9A


To:	towertalk at contesting.com, kr7x at arrl.net
Subject: [TowerTalk] H-beam for elevated guy
From:	K7LXC at aol.com
Date:	 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:00:34 -0500 (EST)

Howdy --

    I'm trying to get an idea of a good size for a 6'  elevated guy anchor
(with 4 feet in the ground and it'll have a backstay). It's  for 100' of
45G. I was thinking of using an 8" flange length. That might be  enough since
it'll be backguyed but since I'm not an engineer, I was looking for  some
feedback on this. TIA.

Cheers,
Steve     K7LXC



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