[TowerTalk] Antenna positioning in the wind

[CQK8DO@aol.com]

I have experimented with my 4 el M2 40 meter yagi... I have found that it
seems to ride the quietest, i.e. the least amount of visible thrashing,
bowing, jerking, torquing the tower, etc., when it is quartering to the
wind... For non sailors, that means with the boom (the keel) at roughly a 45
degree angle to the prevailing wind... It does not seem to matter which end
{i.e. dir or ref} of the antenna is upwind...  Now, I need to build a weather
station  and interface to the computer and the rotator to keep it that way as
the low pressure system slides past and the wind shifts constantly....

Cheers  ....  Denny

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