Boy ... talking about "depends" !!! A self-supporting tower is by and
large NOT designed to hold the weight and stress of the guy wires ...
Many tower erecting folks don't understand that the tower has more than
one stress factor.. there is an UP side, and a DOWN side .. think
about it! Now . having said that .. there is a PLUS side to Jim's
comment .. a light weight quality "wahhhhrrr" nicely installed, can keep
the self-supporting tower from oscillating, or bending into a nasty
position .. One must just not let that "wahhhhrrr" become the major
support device! The original design/install of the "SELF-SUPPORT" tower
should do just that.
73 .. Mark AA6DX
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Smith
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:27 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Concrete suggestions
What happens when you add guy wires to a self-supporting tower?
de Jim Smith VE7FO
Chuck Lewis wrote:
>Steve wrote (referring to breaking the 'Prime Directive'):
>
>>I'll never
>>discourage someone from over-engineering something.
>>
>
>Except when a counter-intuitive "improvement" obeys the 'Law of
Unintended
>Consequences'. For example, adding guy wires to a self-supporting
tower.
>
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