self supporting TV towers

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 28 Sep 2009 at 0:33, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> Why would you think there would be a connection?  The fact that the
> WBZ-TV tower failed in Hurricane Carol says nothing about the design
> requirements for the WNAC-TV tower in Newton.  You might as well ask,
> given that Eiffel Tower in Paris hasn't fallen down yet, why would
> anyone build guyed towers?
 
Then there's the WBZ auxiliary radio tower on Soldiers Field Road, 
which was built as a self-supporting tower, but which had guy wires 
added after 1954.

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