[TowerTalk] Help with beam rotation

[Dick Flanagan W6OLD]

At 8:06 AM -0800 3/15/99, Kurt Andress wrote:

>Dick Flanagan W6OLD wrote:
>
>> I always get in trouble when I disagree with professional
>>hardware-type
>> engineers, but I usually end up learning something in the process, so
>> here goes!  :)

>Every antenna that does not have its boom centerline passing thru the
>mast
>centerline, creates torque loads on the system. The offset between the
>connection of the boom to the mast, always generates torsional loads,
>when
>the antenna is other than boom broadside to the wind.

See?  I told you I would learn something!  I had not thought of the
boom/mast offset.  Thanks for the clarification.

>That's my story and I'm staying with it.

As you should.  Thanks, Kurt.

73, Dick

--
Dick Flanagan W6OLD CFII Minden, Nevada DM09db (South of Reno)
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