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Old March 16th 07, 06:32 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
John Ferrell John Ferrell is offline
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Default Tower design

On 16 Mar 2007 06:50:14 -0700, "Wes" wrote:

On Mar 14, 6:37 pm, "JIMMIE" wrote:
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That is a great website you sent me to, much morethan just the pdf
file I was looking for.
k6mhe.com/


Yep, Danny has some good stuff there.

I tried sending a similar message to this before but this horrible
Google Groups swallowed it somewhere.

Another related resource would be Leeson's book, "Physical Design of
Yagi Antennas." Clearly, you are not designing a Yagi, but a lot of
the material strength, deflection, wind loading, etc is applicable.

There was also an Excel workbook offered by ARRL to accompany the
book. I have it someplace, but can't lay my hand on it at the moment.

Once you get the above ground part designed, you need to worry about
the anchor too. Here's a link to a paper that might help the

http://k6mhe.com/n7ws/SizeConcrete.doc

Wes

Sometimes it is best to back into the correct answer... The suppliers
are going to charge me for 5 yards of concrete in my area whether I
use it or not...
The other choice is to mix it myself.

John Ferrell W8CCW
"Life is easier if you learn to
plow around the stumps"