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[TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters (was "Concrete suggestions")

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters (was "Concrete suggestions")
From: K3BU@aol.com (K3BU@aol.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 00:00:38 2003
In a message dated 4/16/03 11:18:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
steve@oakcom.com writes:

> I think the math would show
>  that a 45? up wind guy adjusted to equalize the compression on all
>  three legs will improve the tower rating in all cases.

Nice thing about using self-supporting guyed tower is that you can have one 
set of guy wires about 2/3 or 3/4 height up, you can drop them down when calm 
wx or working on the antennas (no interference) and in svere wx forecast, 
just hook'em up and sleep better.

Yuri, K3BU

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