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Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] Torque balancing made easy, was kt34xatorque balancing |
From: | W0UN -- John Brosnahan <shr@swtexas.net> |
Date: | Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:29:49 -0600 |
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At 12:01 PM 1/8/2005, K8RI on Tower Talk wrote:
I like the tried and true method of torque balancing. It IS tried and true -- and truly the AMATEUR approach, but FB as long as you don't put up anything that is really competitive or if you want to spend a lot of time doing repairs. For me, stacks of 48 ft booms are a MINIMUM competitive system and you aren't really serious until you get to 60 ft and up booms. At that point you need ALL of the safety factor you can muster if you want to beat Mother Nature. My goal is that all antennas should have a MINIMUM MTBF of a sunspot cycle! That means good engineering and Nylok hardware on everything. I love building BIG antennas, I just don't like repairing them. And rotators are now so expensive with the demise of the cheap prop pitch motor that you can't afford to be tearing them up frequently. Not to mention that any failure will probably be just before (or during) the biggest contest of the year. If you put up a lot of big antennas and don't do it right you will be eaten alive by constant maintenance. --John W0UN _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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