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Subject: Recommendations
Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: 03-Apr-2000 12:45:23
At 12:48 PM 4/3/00 -0700, Natan Huffman wrote:
>Good Morning,
>
>Very often, I am asked for specific opinions or for a recommendation
>pertaining to what I loosely call a "safety issue." A request for mast
>composition or for a tower recommendation or for an opinion about tower
>ratings is a very difficult thing for me to answer. Unfortunately, in this
>day of regulations, litigation and liability concerns, I can only give
>advice about Force 12 products when asked on a public forum.
>
>If you have inquiries of a safety issue nature, I will unfortunately not be
>able to share my experience and will try to direct inquiries to the
>manufacture of the tower, mast. etc.
>
>It's a sign of the times as Pet Clark used to say!

The towertalk reflector (towertalk@contesting.com) and its archive are an
excellent source of information on most such questions. K7LXC sells an
inexpensive program for calculating mast requirements based on wind load
and mast size/material.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com

Don't forget to update your entry on the World Contest Station Database,
now at http://www.contesting.com/stationdatabase.htm


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* 03-Apr-2000 Pete Smith
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