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[TowerTalk] Hazer and good platform grounding

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Hazer and good platform grounding
From: w7why@harborside.com (Tom Osborne)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 22:12:58 -0800


Jim Henderson wrote:

>I thought of making metal rollers to replace the Delrin.
>I am looking for any other ideas that any reflectee may have >successfully  
>used to improve grounding so that the platform may be >used as the feedpoint 
>for a conventional coax-fed 1/4 sloper?
> 
> Jim, KF7E

Hi Jim
Hazer does make a set of wheels for the platform.  A friend of
mine here in town got them and it works slick as heck.  It cranks
up and down a lot easier, too.  It still wouldn't be a perfect
connection, but better than plastic.  73
Tom W7WHY

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