<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>That\u2019s pretty much the nitty gritty of engineering. Make it stronger and it won\u2019t fly or fly very far or it will fall in the river or just cost way too much. Make it light and the engines fall out. Make it strong again\u2026. and nobody can afford it. And on and on. Just about any great building, bridge, or dam is triumph of genius. Or a disaster waiting to happen. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 9, 2025, at 10:24, DAVID M GRAY JR via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><br><div>Thanks, very interesting. </div><div><br></div><div>I remember the Senior Road collapse\u2026. about 1985\u2026\u2026 a nightmare. And about 10 years later the KNOE tower. </div><div><br></div><div>David, K5HEC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pkXq3zMf0"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pkXq3zMf0" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#7F5E53;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><span id="cid:E5D6F161-FEF5-4CE2-8F99-8651320B7BAD"><hqdefault.jpg></span></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#7F5E53" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(127, 94, 83, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pkXq3zMf0" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.847059);">Senior Road Tower collapse near Houston in 1982.</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pkXq3zMf0" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.54902);">youtube.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pkXq3zMf0" style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;"></div></div><div><br></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 9, 2025, at 02:21, Kori Rahman via BVARC <<a href="mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org">bvarc@bvarc.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>I have been a follower of "Practical Engineering" on YouTube for years. He just posted a great video discussing the engineering of large antenna towers (like the one supporting the 146.94MHz and 146.88MHz repeaters here in town). Great video, enjoy:</div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/3nDdLiXS5wk">https://youtu.be/3nDdLiXS5w</a></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>________________________________________________<br>Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club<br><br>BVARC mailing list<br>BVARC@bvarc.org<br>http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org<br>Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ <br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>