[CQ-Contest] Antenna slippage on mast

[Dick Green]

Guy,

About the only think you can do in that situation is pin the mast-to-boom plate to the mast. Many commercial boom-to-mast plates have a hole for that purpose.

BTW, a better place to ask this question is on the Tower Talk reflector.

73, Dick WC1M

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Molinari [mailto:guy_molinari at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 12:17 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Antenna slippage on mast


I have a large 20M monobander with a 60' boom.    It seems that whenever the winds exceed a certain speed I will subsequently need to climb up to 160' to repoint the antenna.   My 40M 4 el beam doesn't seem to do this.   It is definately not rotator slippage because the 15M monobander is lined up just fine.
 
Any tips/tricks?
 
Thanks in advance,
Guy, N7ZG