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Re: [TowerTalk] Swinging gate antenna mounts

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Swinging gate antenna mounts
From: Steve Maki <lists@oakcom.org>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 19:57:36 -0400
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On 5/29/2013 3:52 PM, Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:

Been doing swinging arms for years...

Make sure the tower face is set in such a way as to allow the rotation in
the direction you want.  You can make a model of this on a piece of acetate
over a drawing.  It makes it easier to visualize.

Make an effort to place the mount just above a set of guys as  sidemounts
really tend to torque a tower.  Ask anyone who has ever  been on a tower
with a large beam sidemounted, and then had someone in the shack  rotate the
beam.  Even without hitting the brake on the rotor it can be  uh...exciting.

Which is why I always chuckle when someone, apparently thinking of their tower as some sort of rigid rod (sorry about that :-)), agonizes over their rotator brake.

-Steve K8LX

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