[TowerTalk] THANKS Re: Ham M rotor freezing to accessory shelf

[Larry WA9VRH]

Hi Paul,

Hy-Gain did have a spacer available to get the rotor higher off the shelf. 
It mainly was for being able to connect the rotor wires without having lift 
the rotor. Also kept it off the shelf for the issue that you have

>From Norm's rotor service:

      Tower spacer plate for Hy-gain rotors...allows connection to 8 screw 
terminal strip  by raising rotor off tower plate    TSP-1 - $34.95



Four large nuts or x number of washers would do the same thing.

A toilet plunger with the center hole made larger makes a good rain cap for 
the mast pipe.

73 Larry WA9VRH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Kelley N1BUG" <paul.kelley.n1bug at gmail.com>
To: "towertalk reflector" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] THANKS Re: Ham M rotor freezing to accessory shelf


> Thanks for all the replies to this!
>
> All these years I somehow managed to not hear about this issue,
> which it turns out is very common. Most suggested spacers under the
> rotor, along the lines I was thinking. Several folks also suggested
> preventing water from running down the mast by putting a roof flange
> on the mast above the rotor or covering the rotor in some way. I
> will add spacers as soon as I am able to get up there. It is always
> a fairly thin layer of ice, so getting the rotor up off the shelf a
> bit should prevent the ice from preventing rotation.
>
> 73,
> Paul N1BUG
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