[TowerTalk] torque arms or not?

[Patrick Greenlee]

I have never seen a tower with torque arms.  There, I confess. But it 
seems to me relatively long and rigid arms secured against pivoting at 
the tower end and connected at the other ( non tower end) to the guys 
would provide significant resistance to tower twist around the central 
vertical axis. If reduction of tower twist were an extremely important 
goal running guys at right angles (in both directions) to the outboard 
ends of the torque arms should virtually eliminate twisting.  A 
complication for sure but short of some cost effective sky hooks how 
else could you limit twist so effectively?

Patrick        Nj5G


On 1/9/2017 9:07 AM, Keith Dutson wrote:
> That works for me!  Thanks Jim.
>
> 73, Keith NM5G
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> I think the take home here is that "more guys make it more rigid, which
> reduces the pucker factor when climbing" is the dominant effect.
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