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Re: [TowerTalk] Swinging gate antenna mounts

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Swinging gate antenna mounts
From: K8RI <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 21:01:38 -0400
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On 5/29/2013 7:57 PM, Steve Maki wrote:
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.

Now mine never did that. You could just feel it in the tower when it started or stopped and it was a big antenna...as far as UHF, TV antennas go<:-))

On a 45G the gate will likely be 2 feet long. If that's the case, multiply the weight of the antenna by two for the off center leverage in foot pounds. How fast it decelerates, or accelerates will give the force in Gs. So you then multiply the leverage in ft lbs by Gs to get the twisting force on the tower. Ever get an antenna rotating on a shaft and then try to stop the rotation by gripping the shaft, or just hold one against the wind. Be careful, you can lose a lot of hide doing this experiment.

73

Roger (K8RI)


-Steve K8LX

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