K4SB wrote:
> I'll try to remember the rules established and post them, but probably
> the most important is that requests to use the call in the GQP will
> always go to a rover.
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Sorry guys, old-timers again. I meant to say "priority use of the call
in the GQP" will always go to a rover first.
Had to pull the big 5 element 20 down today...Reflector had rotated
about 45 degrees.
Put a 3/8" bolt through it and the 3" boom. Let's see it rotate now.
Got the whole thing back up and bolted down about 1715 local. Tired
puppy.
One thing is puzzling me and could use some help. I use 2 Centronix
double pole 4 throw switches to control 4 Tailtwisters with one
control box. I disassembled and calibrated all 4 of the Tailtwisters
before mounting them on their towers, so they all agree with the
control box.
The big 20 is pinned through the rotor ( and really, I know that rotor
is sorta small for a 41' boom ) and mast by 3/8' stainless steel nuts
and bolts. But, while the TH11,
40 HB rotatable dipole, and the big 5 element 15 all track exactly,
the 20 can be cranked up heading exactly 45 degrees. But checking it
visually sometime later and it will move about 30 degrees clockwise,
while still indicating 045 at the box. Rocking it to see if the
position pot is dirty has no effect.
?????????????
And don't tell me the tower is rotating. That 89' crankup is in 11
cubic yards of reinforced concrete.
73
Ed
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