In a message dated 99-10-14 12:08:57 EDT, david.b.curtis@intel.com writes:
> Last Monday night N6RO brought a slick gizmo to our club meeting for "show
> and tell". I'll try to describe this thingy...
>
> 1. Start with a piece of angle stock about 18 to 24 inches long.
> 2. Put a muffler clamp at one end to go around the boom.
> 3. At same end, put the tram pulley.
> 4. At the other end, put a caribiner, also to go around the tram line.
> 5. Clamp this assembly to the boom, coming off at right angles like a "one
> sided element".
>
> Note that now you have stabalized the antenna in two dimensions!! The one
> any only time I tried tramming was a hopeless failure (this was long before
> I started reading TowerTalk) so I was much impressed with the possibilities
> of this gizmo. Hope I did a decent description. N6RO claims great success
> with this device... you still need tag lines to control "rocking" around
the
> axis of the tram line... but the claim is much easier tramming.
>
Yessireebob. This is sometimes called a "tiller" by TowerTalkians and
works FB.
Cheers, Steve K7LXC
Tower Tech
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