[TowerTalk] Wind loading

[Dick Blumenstein]

Hi Gary-

I found this link from K7NV 
<http://k7nv.com/notebook/topics/windload.html>. Hopefully, this will 
help. I would assume you would do a force calculation for each diameter 
piece and add the forces up of all the different pieces.

Dick, K0CAT

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Gary Smith wrote on 8/30/2016 2:20 PM:
> I'm having to play games with setting up eight, short, active
> vertical elements on an incredibly rocky area. I am not able to drive
> in ground rods, much less the base of the antennas. I'm coming up
> with a plan to make wooden bases for them and hold them down with
> rocks.
>
> Since I live on the ocean's edge and have to contend with hurricane
> force winds every so often, I'm trying to figure out the wind loading
> of the verticals I'm considering. I'll buy the aluminum sections from
> DXE and prefer to use larger sections just because of branches
> falling at the marsh edge, as they always do. But thicker pieces will
> have more wind loading and that is a problem.
>
> If I use the thinnest configuration I'll have about 22 feet tall made
> of .375, .5, .625 & .750 sections.
>
> I asked what the wind loading would be and nobody I talked to was
> able to give me a clue. Does anyone know a formula to figure the wind
> loading of tapered elements?
>
> Thanks & 73,
>
> Gary
> KA1J
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