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Re: [TowerTalk] Any Economical Options for a Ring Rotor?

To: "Rob Frohne" <rob.frohne@wallawalla.edu>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Any Economical Options for a Ring Rotor?
From: "Gene Fuller" <w2lu@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:35:39 -0400
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Hi Rob -
If you can settle for about 270 degrees of rotation, I'm sure that many would suggest a DIY sidegate. With a 50-60 degree forward beamwidth you really wouldn't miss much and they're fairly easy to build - a few feet of inch and a half by 1/4" angle stock, a short piece of inch and a half pipe, a few U-bolts and a small piece of steel or aluminum plate for mounting a rotator. A local welding shop is helpful, but bolts, a drill and a hack saw will do it, and you're in business.
Gene / W2LU


----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Frohne" <rob.frohne@wallawalla.edu>
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 2:53 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Any Economical Options for a Ring Rotor?


Hi All,

I have been gifted a KT-34XA and have thoughts of stacking it on my 100' of Rohn 45 that presently has a lonely 20 meter monobander on top. Are there any economical solutions for rotating it?

Thanks & 73,

Rob
KL7NA

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Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
Walla Walla University
100 SW 4th Street
College Place, WA 99324
(509) 527-2075

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