Re: FBI Tower Twisting
- From: RFI-EMI-GUY <Rhyolite@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:50:43 -0400
JosephKK wrote:
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:35:01 -0700 (PDT), mpm <mpmillard@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Amateurs ("hams"), broadcast engineers, and others allied to the field
might appreciate this video. It's supposed to be an "FBI" tower, but
I can't swear to that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jP-5fdYQ5Y
I do not know quite how the wrong things that are so visible in the
video went so very wrong but, some serious lack of business acumen,
greed, miscommunication, possibly deceit and outright fraud, and many
other things are likely involved. I would expect some seriously irate
tower space customers to already be actively pursuing legal recourse
by now, those dishes have too narrow of a beam width (several dishes
likely to be 3 degrees tops) to overcome that kind of wiggling.
Never mind the link performance, the tower has certainly started to experience metal fatigue. I think whoever "engineered" this forgot to engage a structural engineer. At a minimum, he would have recommended re-guying with torque arms. At the worst, he would have advised against that degree of loading on the tower. I hope the tower owner is looking out for the integrity of the structure. After all humans have to climb up to fix it.
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Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
"Follow The Money" ;-P
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