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Re: [TowerTalk] HDX 555 Motor Drive BEaring

To: <nv8a@charter.net>, <richard@karlquist.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HDX 555 Motor Drive BEaring
From: PHILIP <n9lah@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 10:55:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Just make sure to have mics as well so ypu can listen for the scary cracking 
sound!

Phil
N9LAH


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From: nv8a@charter.net
To: richard@karlquist.com, n9lah@comcast.net, towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: 2019-07-05 8:33:01 AM 
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HDX 555 Motor Drive BEaring

And it shows the flaw in my assumption that, now that I could set up a 
WiFi-connected camera to watch the tower as it moves up and down, remote 
control would be OK.

Alan NV8A

On 7/4/19 6:07 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> Yet another example of why you should never use
> the remote control box to control these units
> from a distance.
> 
> Rick N6RK
> 
> 
> On 7/4/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Snyder wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Went out this morning to crank up the tower to see if I could hear any 
>> of the EU on 6 meters. as soon as it started up I heard a couple 
>> cracking noises. I stopped and tweaked it up and down a little and 
>> discovered that the flange bearing on the back side of the multi wrap 
>> sheave failed.
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