[TowerTalk] foldover antenna bracket design

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 27 19:00:38 EST 2005


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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] foldover antenna bracket design


> > Jim Lux wrote:
> > Marty Woll (N6VI) made a bunch of brackets that do this, as well (for
all I
> > know, the same basic design).  It's basically a hinge with a removable
pin.
> > Here are some pictures of the widget in use at the JPL/CalTech Field day
> > All the FD pictures (look down a ways)
> > http://www.luxfamily.com/events/fd2004/    (search for "hinge detail")
> >
> > http://www.luxfamily.com/events/fd2004/images/P6250057.JPG is the full
res
> > image
> >
> > http://www.luxfamily.com/events/fd2004/images/P6250057x.JPG (should be a
> > smaller version)
>
> Just looked at the sites.
>
> Doesn't that beam flap in high winds ... such as the intense
> gusts we are experiencing here in west central Florida as I
> type this?

I'm sure it would.  It's more designed for FD kinds of applications.  There
are some extra bolt holes in the plates so I supposed you could pin it down
after tipping the tower upright, if you had some way to get up there.  You
could email Marty and ask him (he's on the usual lookup sites).





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