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Re: [TowerTalk] Re Plumbing a Tower

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Re Plumbing a Tower
From: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:53:30 -0400
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Even here in Michigan on what seem like calm days the darn things move 
around. I was never able to use one successfully. I supported and 
leveled the bottom two sections (3 counting the half section in 
concrete). Then kept leveling as we went up. I tensioned the guys a 
little at a time going around the tower. When finished I borrowed a 
transit  and it was spot on.

After nearly 30 years my old tower was beginning to look like a snake. 
90 feet of TV tower is not something that builds confidence and 
particularly when it's no longer straight.

73

Roger (K8RI)

On 7/28/2010 3:32 PM, Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/28/2010 6:31:57 PM Greenwich Standard Time,
> w2lu@rochester.rr.com writes:
>
> How  about going back a ways from the tower, hang a weighted string and
> check
> the tower aginst the string?
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>
> Good idea, but in some areas it won't work..like any place in the
> tradewinds.  It's always windy in KH6.
>
> Bill KH7XS
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