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Re: [TowerTalk] "...//..winds here in the winter that are pretty bad."

To: Doug Renwick <ve5ra@sasktel.net>, towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "...//..winds here in the winter that are pretty bad."
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 02:36:17 -0500
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I had a 3-turn loop/coil laying on the 45G flat top plate. It was wound like a clock spring allowing close to 600 degrees CW and nearly twice that CCW for cases just like this. How it ever made it around CW to pulling the cables tight, I'll never know.

73

Roger (K8RI)

On 3/4/2015 11:23 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
Roger a best thing to do with the HDR-300 is to remove the stops and have
enough coax looped around the mast to take care of 360+ rotation.
Doug

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I figure any rotator I use should be capable of turning the antenna
regardless of winds.  After tearing up a few of the ham series and an
HDR-200, or 300 (forget which). It looked rugged, but I released the
brake on a windy day.  It wen't past the stops and tore up 4, of 5
pigtails.  That's when the PST61 went up.  That had a design problem
with the top seal, but it'd turn and stop normally regardless of the wind.

73

Roger (K8RI)


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73

Roger (K8RI)


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