[TowerTalk] Where do I put my shed?

[Larry Loen]

TowerTalkians -- keep those cards and letters coming.  I appreciate the
advise and am taking it into consideration.  I will be pouring concrete in
about ten days.

Did the actual final layout of the tower and guy locations yesterday.  It
seems that I will have substantial freedom of action in terms of workable
locations that clear the guy wires.


Larry

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Larry Loen <lwloen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am in the middle of planning (and shortly will be executing) a plan to
> put up my second tower.  It will be a 70 foot Rohn 45, built strictly to
> Rohn's specs.  That's not the problem.
>
> The question is "where do I put the shed"?
>
> I am planning to put a 30m monobander and some VHF/UHF stuff up top
> (6m/432/1286).  All within the engineering specs for windload.
>
> But, I am also planning to drop some lines down from the tower to form
> part of an 80 meter four square on the one hand and a 160m single vertical
> on the other.
>
> However, to make the VHF stuff work "the best" I am also planning to have
> transverters in a small shed "near" the tower.
>
> Well, I've laid out the tower.  Now the question is, how close can the
> shed be?  I want it to be as close to the tower as possible to minimize the
> cable runs from the transverters up the tower (even though it will be
> hardline).
>
> The shed will be very much mostly non-metallic.  There will be some rack
> mounts inside and the gear and wiring.  That's about it.  Is there a
> minimum sensible distance?  Do I just guess and go on?  Some of the locals
> say they've shunt fed towers from as close as 15 feet to a house.  The shed
> is planned to be 10x10.
>
>
> Larry  WO7R
>