Towertalk
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TowerTalk] tower/rotator woes...

To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower/rotator woes...
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:03:55 -0500
List-post: <towertalk@contesting.com">mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
And you torque balance a bank of 440 antennas with rear mounts, how? They were no problem with the dual worm gear rotator.
Unfortunately they were what I had.

73, Roger (K8RI)

On 2/20/2017 1:11 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:05:23 +0000
From: Ken K6MR <k6mr@outlook.com>
To: "towertalk@contesting.com" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower/rotator woes...



Which is exactly the reason you need to torque balance an antenna. If your 
antenna is torque balanced, there will be -zero- torque on the mast in any wind 
condition. If you release the brake and the antenna windmills, you need torque 
balancing.

Properly balanced, there will never be a condition where the rotator cannot 
turn ?against the wind?, because there is no torque generated by the antenna(s) 
for the rotator to overcome.

Ken K6MR


---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus


_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>