[TowerTalk] Prosistel PST-61 or PST-2051

[Dave Sublette]

My Orion mast clamp has never slipped. It has 4 x 33 ele 432, 4 x 12 ele 
144, 2 x 16 ele 222 5 el 6M, 33 el looper 902, 67 el 1296.  Of course I 
am using a 3 inch mast :-)

Dave, K4TO

On 5/6/2012 10:14 AM, K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
>>
> I finished my new 80' tower a month ago.  I have  a F12 C31XR and F12
> D240 2 element 40, so a similar setup to yours.  I  have a t2x but had
> not intention of using as I knew it wasn't enough.   I'll use it to side
> mount a WARC beam.
>
>>   I decided on an  Orion 2800 with a Green Heron controller.
>>   Amarillo is the 3rd  windiest city in the USA, so I needed something
> reliable.  So far no  slipping of the mast clamp as some have had concern
> for.  We have had  several, and I mean several days of 30 to 40 mph winds
> with gusts  approaching 60 mph.
>
>      Good choice on the Green Heron. MUCH better than  the factory version
> which is a controller only the designer could  love.
>
> I'll guarantee that in the near future your  mast will slip in the clamp.
> It might take a couple of months but it will slip.  Virtually 100% of the
> couple dozen Orions I've installed over the years  have eventually slipped. The
> factory Orion clamp has a major flaw in  that the teeth do not give enough
> clamping area to be of much use. My estimate  is a total of one square inch
> of contact area or less. Not enough to hold the  mast reliably. The Champion
> Radio Products after market clamp solves this  problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve     K7LXC
> TOWER TECH
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