[TowerTalk] Tower Guy Calculations

[K9MA]

If you don’t understand vectors and trigonometry, this is going to be very hard. Perhaps someone has written as step by step procedure, but that would be a lot of work. I wouldn’t trust a procedure, spreadsheet, or online calculator without carefully testing it. If you find one, I can suggest some test cases.

73,
Scott K9MA 

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Scott Ellington

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> On Oct 13, 2019, at 8:51 AM, Tom Hellem <tom.hellem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know of a tool for calculating the forces associated with
> sizing guy wires on a tower? It feels to me that this would lend itself
> rather easily to a spreadsheet where one could enter the variables of his
> installation and the spreadsheet would spit out the results.
> I found a few rudimentary calculators on line but they don't seem to quite
> take it all the way.
> 
> Any engineers out there willing to share something like this? I think it
> would be very useful to anybody who has or is contemplating the
> construction of a guyed tower. I personally know of a few installations
> that look like a catastrophe waiting to happen and not being an engineer or
> tower erector I am having a tough time convincing the owners of these
> installations that they should make some improvements.
> 
> 73
> Tom Hellem
> K0SN
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