> I would like to put up 40-50 feet of 25. It would be behind my single
story ranch house. One guy would go towards the rear. The other 2 would head
toward the front left and right. The easiest would be to guy to the roof.
This tower will be for some vhf and uhf antennas. Your thoughts.
I've seen roofs that have been pulled loose by attached guy wires. You
can do it but I'd be very careful about the engineering. A fellow
TowerTalkian, Tony, K1KP, wrote a QST article some years ago about this topic.
Get
ahold of a copy of it and you'll be much wiser.
Please note that 25G uses 3/16" EHS with a ultimate breaking strength
of 4000#. Could your homebrew roof guy anchor take that kind of stress? I
didn't think so.
Obviously your proposed installation will be on the small side so you
won't have much risk but I'd still be careful.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
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