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
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