[TowerTalk] Engineering closer-in guys

[Jim Brown]

On 9/2/2020 6:52 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> I had a Rohn 55 tower that was built in 1971 as 150’ high with 4 levels of
> guys and anchors 120’ from the base. Some ten years later they put two more
> sections on, making it 170’, and added a 5th guy level (and borrowed the
> 4th level’s spot on the guy anchor plate for it)

I've seen that tower -- it was about 3 miles from me, and my impression 
of it was that it was well engineered given the conditions. Matthew 
designed and built a VERY innovative wide coverage repeater system -- 
moderately innovative in concept, but extremely innovative as to how he 
repurposed equipment of moderate cost to implement it. Check out 
WB6ECE.org  I never remember Matthew's call, but he's a VERY impressive 
guy who has given back a LOT to the community. Last I heard he had 
leadership responsibility for Alexa engineering.

73, Jim K9YC