You need to pause and consider the forces involved.
a. wind forces directly on a wall are more or less distributed across
the wall, while wind forces on the tower are applied to a smaller area
(the house bracket). That's a big difference.
b. wind forces on the tower get magnified by the leverage of the
tower. That's another big difference.
Simply comparing the surface area of the tower/antennas with the surface
area of the wall is meaningless.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 5/14/2011 6:50 PM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley wrote:
>
> Goodness! What are you guys _putting_ on your house-bracketed towers?
>
> Why would wind on a thin-member lattice tower and cylindrical-element
> antennas create more disturbance to framing than wind on a solid wall?
>
> Bud, W2RU
>
>
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