[TowerTalk] Sidemount yagis

[Pete Smith]

At 12:53 PM 4/4/00 -0500, Kurszewski Chad-WCK005 wrote:
...
>Without a swinging gate, you are limited to 120 degrees.
>This increases as you move the pivot point further away
>from the tower leg, but not more than a few degrees.  Never
>approaching 180 degrees, let alone the 300 degrees a swinging
>gate gets you.

Chad is (as usual) right.  I had a brain fade and doubled the angle of
possible swing.  But I'm pleased to have my impression confirmed that the
swinging gate need only be long enough so that the boom clears the furthest
tower leg -- 

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

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