[TowerTalk] foldover antenna bracket design

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 > Jim Lux wrote:
>>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).


Climb a tiltover to latch the beam hinge ... kinda defeats the
purpose, eh?  ;-)

Perhaps an electrically, or mechanically (pull string),
powered latch might solve that problem?


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Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e

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