[BC] WFIN Findlay OH loses tower

[Dave Karr]

>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.

Photo 6, <http://www.wfin.com/Photos/Tower6.jpg>, shows two guy levels on 
the ground.


>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.

Perhaps on the ground with the other 180' of 'missing' tower.



--Dave