[TowerTalk] HF beam against the wind.

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[TowerTalk] HF beam against the wind.

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Subject:	[TowerTalk] HF beam against the wind.
From:	dick@libelle.com (Dick Flanagan)
Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:39:33 -0800

At 9:27 AM -0800 11/10/97, Charles H. Harpole wrote:
>Likewise, does it not follow that if a free-wheeling beam antenna turns in
>a specific direction, that fact is because that is the position of
>least pressure on its parts?

Weathervaning illustrates a position of =equal= pressure, not necessarily
minimum pressure.  Positions of equal and minimum pressure often coincide,
but I don't believe there is any physical law that says they have to.

73, Dick

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