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Tower Selection

Many Selections, Off-the-Shelf

If you already know what you need, you can find it below:

Rohn

• Separate sections and components: 25G or 45G & 55G for customized needs.
• Complete tower kits: 25G link or 45G & 55G.
• Embedded Poles

Trylon

• SuperTitan Complete Towers
• SuperTitan Accessories
• Titan Complete Towers
• Titan Accessories
• Super Titan Guyed (STG)

Need Help Finding a Tower? With TESSCO It's Easy

There are three major considerations for choosing the correct tower style for your application:

1. Determine the antenna loading requirement. When choosing the correct tower, knowing site’s ‘wind loading’ requirement is most important. The larger the surface area of the cable, antennas and mounts attached to the tower the more the wind pushes on them, stressing the tower. In order to find the right tower, you need to know what’s going on it. If the tower is too small, it will fall over. If the tower is too big, you will waste a lot of money!
2. Determine the type of tower you need. There are four considerations in choosing the right type of tower: the available space at the site, the wind loading of the components, aesthetics and cost. See below for more details.
3. Determine the tower's height. Knowing the overall height of the tower as well as the height of each antenna is crucial in ensuring you get the right tower for your site.
4. Determine if the county requires P.E. Stamped Drawings. More and more counties and local jurisdictions are requiring P.E. (Professional Engineering) Stamped Drawings for newly erected towers to ensure they will perform as designed. Just check with your local official to see if P.E. Stamped Drawings are required and whether they are following the Rev G (newer) or Rev F (older) standard. It’s easy and inexpensive to find out before selecting your tower, but difficult and costly to resolve after the tower has been erected.
5. Fill out the TESSCO tower calculation form. Once you know what antennas you are using, what type of tower you need and the height requirements of the tower and antennas, just fill out the tower calculation form form and let TESSCO find the right tower at the right price. Most tower solutions ship from stock to arrive within 3-5 days of placing your order.

Monopole Options

Monopoles are an ideal solution where space is a premium and aesthetics are a must. A simple, sleek design, Rohn's pre-engineered monopoles, exclusively available through TESSCO, require as little as 3 square feet for installation and rise up to 100 feet above ground level. In many jurisdictions, monopoles up to 70 feet do not require zoning approval (significantly reducing installation costs), making them an ideal solution for urban and suburban areas. With delivery and installation possible in as short as one week, and at a cost that is often competitive to other mounting alternatives, Monopoles are an ideal solution for many broadband, microwave and cellular applications in urban and suburban areas.

Gain more information on monopoles.

Self-Support Towers

While self-supporting towers have a larger footprint than monopoles, their structural design often enables them to carry more wind loading at a lower cost than monopoles. Trylon’s revolutionary off-the-shelf SuperTitan and Titan tower series offer more than 100 in-stock configurations up to 190 feet above ground level—meeting most loading requirements and budgets. With so many options available, the SuperTitan is a reliable solution for meeting budget constraints on many broadband, SCADA, LMR and microwave applications. For very-light loading requirements, there is no better solution in the marketplace than the Trylon Titan series. From the heavier-duty SuperTitan, made of ¼” angle galvanized angle iron, to the lighter-weight Titan, a reliable tower for more than 25 years, Trylon provides the premier solution to your tower needs.

Find in-depth knowledge on Self-Support Towers.

Guyed Towers

The substantial footprint of a guy tower allows them to be constructed to substantial heights with greater loading than both monopoles and self-support towers, such as television towers, making them ideal for large microwave, broadcast and LMR applications. With identical three-sided, 10-foot sections stacked one on top of the other, guyed towers are secured by guy wire anchored on three sides away from the tower base. Unlike the other options, guyed towers do not taper as they rise; each section is the same width with welded cross braces securing three vertical round (hollow or solid) tower legs. Guyed towers require components such as guy wire, thimbles, guy brackets, pier pins, anchor rod and turnbuckles.

Great for Low-Height Projects

Guyed tower sections can also be installed at shorter heights using a buried concrete foundation or non-penetrating rooftop mount, which do not require guy wire for additional support. Using self-supporting guy tower sections is a perfect solution for low-height, light-loading applications, such as broadband and SCADA. TESSCO carries products from two premier guyed tower manufacturers.

For more information contact TESSCO
at 800-472-7373 or email us today.

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