If you had the freedom you apparently want, so would your next door
neighbor, the one who aspires to be a pig farmer.
I am in a rural setting (black Angus ranch) with no one to answer to re
my towers/antennas except the FAA and my nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile
away. I don't have to make many compromises about my structures or their
appearance as in 20 years I have pulled one permit, a septic system
install. No mechanical or electrical inspections or permits for houses
or outbuildings. My only defense in case a neighbor wants to start a pig
farm is distance. Distance from my house to various neighbors varies
from 1/4 to over 1/2 mile. Luckily my neighbors are cattlemen not pig
farmers. Townie hams have my sympathy as they may suffer mightily at the
hands of the petty little minds in positions of power and control over
the actions of others. The theory sounds good, protection of property
values and aesthetics, but the practice is not always fair.
Patrick NJ5G
On 9/1/2019 1:48 PM, Ken K6MR wrote:
“A hard-fought county variance was required for this antenna. Multiple towers would
have been right-out.”
It’s so nice to live in a free country…
Ken K6MR
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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Doug Ronald
<doug@dougronald.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2019 11:18:09 AM
To: 'Kelly Taylor' <ve4xt@mymts.net>; TowerTalk@contesting.com
<TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
SO2R is still feasible with the proper diplexer as long as the two operators
can work stations in the same direction. This antenna's beamwidth is 70
degrees, so there is plenty of leeway geographically.
A hard-fought county variance was required for this antenna. Multiple towers
would have been right-out.
-W6DSR
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kelly
Taylor
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2019 06:28
To: Glenn Pritchard
Cc: Jim Thomson; dj7ww@t-online.de; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
I can see the attraction of a system such as this to government, where a single
antenna to cover all of HF might be needed, but in an amateur station, it seems
like a ton of money putting all eggs into one basket. One clamp failure and
your entire antenna system is a crumpled heap of aluminum.
Perhaps one tower is all he had space to raise, but it also seems like a huge
sum of money to not even get SO2R capability.
Cool project to follow in the photo essay, and condolences on the final result,
sincerely.
73, kelly, ve4xt
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On Sep 1, 2019, at 08:04, Glenn Pritchard <gpritchard7000@gmail.com> wrote:
The antenna and tower design was fine, we had over the years installed quite a
few of these systems from Sabre, Hy-Gain, Rockwell to US Antenna and never had
a failure.
It was unfortunate that the clamps were not torqued to spec.
Reading from the projects start there were issues with the pressurized line etc.
These tilt over LP’s are made to do this along with that tilt boom bracket.
Cable crimp’s were never used on these turnkey LP antennas that we had
installed and the rotation system has been pretty much standard.
Glenn, VA7UO
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On Sep 1, 2019, at 5:13 AM, "dj7ww@t-online.de" <dj7ww@t-online.de> wrote:
That is a bad idea, the torque force on the rotor under high winds will become
much larger.
73
Peter
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Betreff: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
## with more boom on the shorter ele side.....vs the longer ele side,
the required rotor
torque will be sky high. They have mounted the boom at its CG.
They should have
mounted at center of boom, and added a counterweight at light end of
boom.
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