Well thank you Doug! I didn't know that my credibility had a score card.
It's so nice to know that someone is keeping track.
It seems these answers are awfully important to you so I will oblige.
You want to know what a few means?
One would mean a single one.
Two would mean exactly two.
"A few" means three or more last I knew.
To be specific, as far as I can remember the number of cracked foundations
that I have seen number around 4 or 5 or maybe more which qualifies as "a
few" in regard to my statement.
"How do I know that these bases were cracked from lightning strikes and not
from some other action?" I did not see it happen so I can't be 100% sure but
just prior to a lightning storm that took out the equipment at the site the
tower foundation was fine. Immediately after the strike the foundation had a
crack. These were pointed out to me by the service people when I was called
to inspect the sites.
I didn't say that I knew that there were "just J bolts in the foundation". I
said that there was no ground on the towers other than the tower attached to
the J bolts in the concrete. I don't know what was in the concrete besides
just the J bolts. In some cases there may have been rebar and in some cases
there may have been only J bolts in the concrete. But no external ground
connections.
73
"Out in the open and working on my credibility"
Gary K4FMX
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Doug Renwick
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:48 PM
> To: 'TowerTalk'
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Exploding Foundations
>
> I am calling you on this.
> What is a few ... one, two, five, more than five?
> How do you know that these bases were cracked from lightning strikes and
> not from some other action? Please explain.
> Did you see it happen? Did someone else see it happen? Explain the
> details for arriving at the conclusion that lightning caused the crack.
> How did you know that there were just J bolts?
>
> Don't go into hiding again when pressed for details. Your credibility
> is on shaky ground.
>
> Doug
>
>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Exploding Foundations
>
> I have seen a few concrete bases cracked from lightning strikes. These
> were
> all where there was no ground system attached to the tower at all. Just
> the
> tower attached to the J bolts in the concrete. I can't recall seeing one
> cracked where there was a ground system attached.
>
> snip
>
> 73
> Gary K4FMX
>
>
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