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Re: [TowerTalk] foldover antenna bracket design

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] foldover antenna bracket design
From: doc <kd4e@verizon.net>
Reply-to: kd4e@verizon.net
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:46:15 -0500
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 > Jim Lux wrote:
> Marty Woll (N6VI) made a bunch of brackets that do this, as well (for all I
> know, the same basic design).  It's basically a hinge with a removable pin.
> Here are some pictures of the widget in use at the JPL/CalTech Field day
> All the FD pictures (look down a ways)
> http://www.luxfamily.com/events/fd2004/    (search for "hinge detail")
> 
> http://www.luxfamily.com/events/fd2004/images/P6250057.JPG is the full res
> image
> 
> http://www.luxfamily.com/events/fd2004/images/P6250057x.JPG (should be a
> smaller version)

Just looked at the sites.

Doesn't that beam flap in high winds ... such as the intense
gusts we are experiencing here in west central Florida as I
type this?

-- 
Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e

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