- 1. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:58:25 +0000
- Hi everyone: This is a question for the tower professionals (but of course anyone can chime in). The local newspaper's wx section yesterday had a writeup about Hurricane Andrew since this was the 10t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00737.html (8,408 bytes)
- 2. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: wendell@wyly.org (Wendell Wyly W5FL)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:17:38 -0500
- Designing to the wind speed is normally required for any structure that requires a building permit including towers (but not antennas on the towers). Designing to survive all kinds of flying debris i
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00740.html (10,220 bytes)
- 3. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:23:15 EDT
- wondered Are Winds of that force are unbelievable. Sometimes the towers stay up but the antennas blow off and become lethal weapons (like just about anything else flying thru the air at the time). I
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00741.html (8,869 bytes)
- 4. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: rmoodyg@bellsouth.net (Richard M. Gillingham)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:10:27 -0400
- A 1200' tower in Princeton FL (just north of Homestead) was flattenned by Andrew. As was darn near everything else down there. Gil, W1RG
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00746.html (9,548 bytes)
- 5. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: k4ik@subich.com (Joe Subich, K4IK)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:19:23 -0400
- Two or three of the TV broadcast towers in Miami came down during Andrew. I know the WTVJ (then WCIX) tower came down on top of the transmitter building trapping a couple of engineers for a couple d
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00747.html (8,417 bytes)
- 6. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: btippett@alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:57:12 -0400
- extended blast of cat. 5 hurricane. Category 5 is 155 MPH or higher. Chinook winds along the front range of the Rockies are routinely 100+ MPH and a few approach category 5 strengths. We had two over
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00748.html (8,683 bytes)
- 7. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: jimr.reid@verizon.net (Jim Reid)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:33:57 -1000
- So do we out here on Kauai, Joe. We had our own Cat. 5 hurricane on 9/11/92, Iniki, just several days following Andrew. Estimated maximum sustained winds over Kauai were 140 mph with gusts to 175 mp
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00749.html (8,019 bytes)
- 8. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White)
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:01:29 -0400
- The W1CW/W1YL QTH was very close to that site - see the cover of December QST 10 years ago to see what it did to their main tower... After personally seeing what a full fledged Hurricane can do - I t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00751.html (12,465 bytes)
- 9. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: spelunk.sueno@prodigy.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 01:09:51 -0400
- Rob: For the past three years I've been working on a wireless telephone project in Haiti, just a short plane ride from Miami. Our network consists of many self-supporting towers that we specified to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00753.html (10,649 bytes)
- 10. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
- Author: shr@ricc.net (W0UN--John Brosnahan)
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:09:54 -0400
- I sure do recall the mess. I just came over to see if Bill needed to cover the hole in his roof and was surprised at just how big the chimney was and how it fell anyway. I could understand it if it
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00759.html (9,404 bytes)
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