[TowerTalk] Loos Tension Gauge

[Ian White G/GM3SEK]

Dick wrote:
>When we calibrated cable tensiometers for aircraft cables we suspended 
>a known weight from a cable attached to a fixed point and measured the 
>tension on the cable with the instrument under test.  I don't know why 
>you couldn't perform a similar test either substituting different 
>cables or as John says below, put a known and unknown in series and 
>build a calibration chart.
>

Thanks, Dick - I've been keeping those big old transformers for 
*something* useful after all...


-- 
73 from Ian G/GM3SEK