[BC] WFIN Findlay OH loses tower

[David Reaves]

I can't imagine that we're seeing the whole tower. Not if it's
supposed to be 86 meters tall.

First, if we use the shed as being 8-10 feet tall as a reference,
that could never be the full 86 meters (282 feet) of tower in the
photo. The other giveaway is that five stripes (three red, two white)
are the minimum painting requirements for FAA compliance at that
height and I only see what appears to be one and a half red stripes.
IOW, it looks to me like half the tower is missing from the photo.

If that is the case, they may have a bit of a problem loading into
what remains, which looks to be maybe 75 feet tall and  well out of
plumb.

Kind Regards,
David

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:42:21 -0600, Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
wrote:
>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