[BC] WFIN Findlay OH loses tower

[Mike McCarthy]

86 meters is something around 260 ft.  That's a LOT of steel on such a 
narrow face to be guyed at one level. And I can easily see how it whip 
lashed itself into failure.  There's over 100 ft. of tower above the guy point.

Tuscon did a number of one guy point towers.  But those were MONSTER face 
sizes on the order of 15 ft.  Same with Blaw Knox ala WLW.  I know of one 
single point guy line Truscon in Quincy, IL.  It's a 700 ft. monster face 
that the local ham club needed a special antenna system to create omni 
coverage for their 2M repeater.

I wonder where the tower lighting is at on this tower.  It appears recently 
painted.  But I see no sign of any lighting.

MM

At 10:57 AM 2/14/2007 -0500, Douglas B. Pritchett wrote
>Don't call me Shirley. Seriously, it looks about right to me......but I'm 
>in Fort Wayne.
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>Douglas B. Pritchett
>Fort Wayne, IN (really, don't laugh)
>wbzq1300 at verizon.net
>
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>Gary Glaenzer wrote:
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>>sureley that's not all the tower
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>>FCC info says 86 meters tall
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>>G
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