[TowerTalk] "K" factor gets sillier

[Pete Smith]

At 09:50 AM 7/23/00 -0500, Chuck Lewis wrote:
>Pete Smith said:
>
>> ...if Yaesu had left the K factor as it was I wouldn't have said anything.
>> However, when they added in the mast weight, they threw things out of
>> kilter.
>
>Pete, is there a website where the new K-factor verbiage is available? I
>haven't found it on the Yaesu site.

The only place I have found it is in the manual for the G-800SA.

>BTW, I claimed that the K-factor was shown as being dimensionless; I was
>wrong. It's specified in ft.-lbs.

Actually, it is kg-m in both the old and new manuals.  The rated K factors
for the G-800 and G-1000 are unchanged at 180 kg-m and 230 kg-m
respectively.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR

The World Contest Station Database 
is back up and running at
http://www.qsl.net/n4zr 



--
FAQ on WWW:               http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk
Submissions:              towertalk@contesting.com
Administrative requests:  towertalk-REQUEST@contesting.com
Problems:                 owner-towertalk@contesting.com