I have never seen a tower with torque arms. There, I confess. But it
seems to me relatively long and rigid arms secured against pivoting at
the tower end and connected at the other ( non tower end) to the guys
would provide significant resistance to tower twist around the central
vertical axis. If reduction of tower twist were an extremely important
goal running guys at right angles (in both directions) to the outboard
ends of the torque arms should virtually eliminate twisting. A
complication for sure but short of some cost effective sky hooks how
else could you limit twist so effectively?
Patrick Nj5G
On 1/9/2017 9:07 AM, Keith Dutson wrote:
That works for me! Thanks Jim.
73, Keith NM5G
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I think the take home here is that "more guys make it more rigid, which
reduces the pucker factor when climbing" is the dominant effect.
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