[TowerTalk] Phillistran

[Ken Beals]

The aforementioned fire victim was me. The 20 foot steel ends on the guys were of little help when the flames were 100 feet high. The tower was 80 feet, and everything on the tower that wasn’t steel was vaporized. The ground temperature around the tower was high enough to melt most of the spare aluminum stacked in the area.


A 50 foot tower next to the house was saved, but the plastic shroud on the cell repeater antenna at the top was melted. 


Let’s just say this necessitated a complete station rebuild. 


Ken K6MR






From: Wayne Kline
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎25‎ ‎May‎, ‎2014 ‎14‎:‎05
To: Chuck Smallhouse
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com





I am under the impression ,that Phillistran installation guid recommends appropriate steel/EHS
Guy wire at a safe tamper proof and ground fire height.
I have installed a number of both Phillistran and PollyRod towers,  guy / ground safety hight 
Plugged into the total guy equation .

Wayne. W3EA

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On May 24, 2014, at 11:56 PM, "Chuck Smallhouse" <w7cs at theriver.com> wrote:

> A story for those of you using Phillistran cable for guying a tower.
> 
> I was talking to a ham that lives in far N. CA, in area that is subject to wildfires.  A couple of years ago the area had a bad wildfire that moved in the direction of his QTH, in a somewhat rural area.  Even though the area around his home was quite well cleared, they couldn't save his workshop where most of his test equipment and ham equipment was located.
> 
> When he returned after a mandatory evacuation and surveyed the damage , he found that not only was his ham shack destroyed, but also his guyed tower had fallen over.   It turned out that he had guyed it using Phillistrand and that the fire had burned the guys through and which resulted in the catastrophic demise of his tower and beams.
> 
> I guess that the lesson to be learned is, to at least have the bottom sections of your  guys be of steel cable and not any type of flammable material, especially if you live in a wildfire prone area.
> 
> Chuck,  W7CS, with no Phillistrand guys .
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