On 5/29/2013 3:52 PM, Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:
Been doing swinging arms for years...
Make sure the tower face is set in such a way as to allow the rotation in
the direction you want. You can make a model of this on a piece of acetate
over a drawing. It makes it easier to visualize.
Make an effort to place the mount just above a set of guys as sidemounts
really tend to torque a tower. Ask anyone who has ever been on a tower
with a large beam sidemounted, and then had someone in the shack rotate the
beam. Even without hitting the brake on the rotor it can be uh...exciting.
Which is why I always chuckle when someone, apparently thinking of their
tower as some sort of rigid rod (sorry about that :-)), agonizes over
their rotator brake.
-Steve K8LX
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