Oops! After seeing the photograph, it's obviously not the F-12 tower I was
thinking of.
73, Norm - W1MO
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From: "Jeff Carter" <towertalk@hidden-valley.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 23:21
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New Tower
> Well, I hadn't intended to guy it, since it's a crankup I thought I
> could just crank it up and down pretty much at will. It seems to me
> that guy wires would get in the way of that.
>
> >From reading TowerTalk, I got the impression that the big danger is
> ground shear. If that's the case, then these arms should give this
> tower a tremendous amount of strength.
>
> I have seen one crank up tower that was always left upright, and it
> had been guyed, but it didn't have the arms like mine and it wasn't
> nearly as heavily built in terms of the crosspieces.
>
> Are you positive it's meant to be guyed? I can't argue the point
> because I don't have the drawings, but this is the first time anybody
> said I'd have to guy it. Guying it would also make the site I'd
> chosen for it unusable, because of where the anchor points would have
> to go.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff/KD4RBG
>
>
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> To a first approximation, this is a guyed tower because of those heavy
> stays.
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