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

On Mar 14, 6:37 pm, "JIMMIE" wrote:
[snip]
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"


You might want to see if you can rent a 1 yard cement delivery trailer.
Some tool rentals have them.

Dave N