Well, to be honest, its not a "tower". A while back when i realized i would likely end up in a city with a height requirement of 35', I started to figure out the probelm of "how much shit can I make happen in 35'". I struggled and thought about multiple masts and maybe some utility poles, but that just had me with the same problem. I had to face facts of "I have one shot at 35' that HAS to fall in my yard hitting nothing (cant piss the wife off (red headed nurse that loves horses (see GD for the joke)))." Then it dawned on me.
SCAFFOLDING!!!
I started researching and the more I did, i absolutly fell in love with the idea of a 5'x7' platform that I could easily climb and would have FOUR mini masts to mount all sorts of shit off of. I love to experiment with antennas, espically VHF stuff (mostly sats), and I could cram a boat load off the support structure of a simple scaffold setup. Even if it only got to 20', i could throw up 10' masts with antennas on top and it would be 'RF redneck nerdvana'.
So thats when the actual physical requirements started to dawn on me of, "if theres an ice loaded 50mph north wind blowing on the fat side of this thing, how much will the skinny side hold before it says 'enough is enough' and goes on vacation."
Which leads me to my post here. So yea, i want to put up 20'-30' of scaffolding, freestanding, for my radio tower to hold anything I decide to put on it shy of anything crazy like stacked HF beams.
And yes, the idea of making it isolated to use as a 40M vertical did cross my mind.
So, thoughts?