To: <towertalk@contesting.com> K1VR: The photos at this URL stand for the proposition that the tower did not fall the length of its height. Fred Hopengarten K1VR hopengarten@post.harvard.edu Six Will
This fell the same way that the 2000' Raleigh TV tower fell ten or so years ago, straight down, crushing itself as it went. The guys never came loose, with equal pull, even as falling, especially wit
Dick, Certainly the common failure mode of commercial towers (other than intentional sabotage) is failure of one member (either vertical or horizontal) which will result in a crumpling or crushing fa
You can bet if you see a guyed tower laying over like a "cut tree", something was wrong with the guying. Even a tower guyed at one level will fold and fall, if the guys are properly installed and ma
Bays? Not sure what you are calling a bay. A typical VHF TV transmitting antenna can weigh ten or twenty tons. Gary ag0n at arrl dot net http colon slash slash mcduffie dot ws -- List Sponsored by AN
I'm not sure if that means you disagree with those numbers or not...but they are real. Believe it or not, we're getting ready to hoist nearly 4 tons of heliax up one tower, and a little short of 3 to