If it were me, I'd decline to use it. By the time you replace all the guy wires, strip all the junk off the tower, clean off all the rust and paint it, you've still got an old tower when you're finished. All that expense would go a long way toward a new tower. And that's not even considering all those rusty joints that could, and probably will, cause all kinds of intermod.
If you can purchase the site, and it's a good one, it could eventually work out with a new installation. Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "dgrapach" <dgrap...@gmail.com> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:27 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advice on 40 year old radio tower > > The pictures are here of the tower. > http://s903.photobucket.com/albums/ac231/dgrapach/Old%20tower/Old%20Tower/ > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "dgrapach" <dgrap...@...> wrote: >> >> Very true,this tower had it's guy wires in the woods under the trees, the >> site was abandon for years. >> >> Where and how do I find an engineer to inspect it. I am in Indiana county >> pa. Is it feasible to change guy wires, do they recomemd it? >>
