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Re: [TowerTalk] misaligned vertical towers

To: stan@aqity.com, Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] misaligned vertical towers
From: n8de@thepoint.net
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:28:04 -0400
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There is a product on the market (reasonably priced below $10) that has an 'angle' built into the side.

You place it against the tower leg, and read the 'bubbles'.

Think you should get one and use it on all the tower legs of both towers.

It should tell you exactly what you need to know about verticality.

73
Don
N8DE


Quoting Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>:

I don't know whether this would work or not - depends on how far off they
regarding being vertical.  What would happen if you used a four foot level
and a straight piece of tubing or 2x4 and look at the legs of the towers
from all sides.  Surely you could tell whether one was off more than the
other.

73...Stan, K5GO

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Steve K7AWB <k7awbgoog@gmail.com> wrote:


I have two towers up.  A 90 foot Rohn 45 with a 6-el 20 meter beam on it
and
a 102 foot Rohn 25 without anything on it yet.  Both are guyed.  In putting
them up, a group of us used a Loos tension meter and our eyesight at the
bottom of each tower to make them vertical.

But when I look and align the two towers next to each other by walking
around until they are "next" to
each other, one or both are off vertically with respect to each other.

How do I figure which is straight and which is off or maybe both are
slight off?
I really don't want to climb them now in the bad weather and drop a plumb
bob and do not have a survey level.  They are really 135 feet apart.

73
Steve Sala
K7AWB
DN17es
Nine Mile Falls, WA

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