Here is seat of pants. You can put a rather large antenna on a piece of water
pipe if the antenna is mounted about 3 inches above the top of the tower.
Imagine the force it would take to permanently bend a piece of 1.5” schedule
40 water pipe 3 inches from where it was secured.
Nobody talks about aluminum but I have 15 feet of 2” OD, 3/8” wall 6061-T6 that
was installed 50 years ago with a 2 element Mosley 40 at the bottom a 4 element
Cushcraft 20 in the middle and a little Hygain DB1015 at the top. It was
changed a few years ago to something different. It had seen some tremendous
winds but never a problem in 50 years.
It would be interesting for someone like K6OK to tell us an example of how many
SF you could have at 3 inches, 7.5 feet and 15 feet with that aluminum mast and
survive about 90 mph over which is when those elements would probably have been
stripped off.
Stan, K5GO
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> On May 28, 2024, at 3:07 PM, john simmons <jasimmons@pinewooddata.com> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> DXEngineering has a mast load calculator (offline as of this moment).
> Although I'm not answering your question directly, many here will have a good
> 'seat of the pants' feeling if you tell us what antennas and what heights you
> are planning for.
>
> 73
> -de "Curly" John NI0K
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>
> On 5/28/2024 8:39 AM, Mpridesti via TowerTalk wrote:
>
> Looking to purchase a mast that was quoted as:
>
> CRT 2 inch OD x 0.25 wall by 20 ft DOM
>
> Not galvanized as yet.
>
> Will this be near equivalent to Chromoly?
>
> A modest antenna load is planned- wind surface area.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark, K1RX
>
>
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