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

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters (was "Concrete suggestions")
From: W2fca@cs.com (W2fca@cs.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 20:22:02 2003
In a message dated 4/18/03 13:12:19 Eastern Daylight Time, 
olinger@bellsouth.net writes:
<< I have been at the top of guyed towers, and my own self-supporter in high 
winds, and the movement in the wind at 100' on a guyed tower will take your 
breath away. I never have felt that at the top of the Trylon. It simply does 
not move like a guyed tower. >>

Does that mean that on a 100 foot tower guyed with 3/16 EHS at the 
recommended tension that those guy wires will be stretching on the order of 
several inches or more?

Frank
W2FCA
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