[TowerTalk] Swinging gate antenna mounts

[Steve Maki]

On 5/29/2013 3:52 PM, Cqtestk4xs at aol.com wrote:

> Been doing swinging arms for years...
>
> Make sure the tower face is set in such a way as to allow the rotation in
> the direction you want.  You can make a model of this on a piece of acetate
> over a drawing.  It makes it easier to visualize.
>
> Make an effort to place the mount just above a set of guys as  sidemounts
> really tend to torque a tower.  Ask anyone who has ever  been on a tower
> with a large beam sidemounted, and then had someone in the shack  rotate the
> beam.  Even without hitting the brake on the rotor it can be  uh...exciting.

Which is why I always chuckle when someone, apparently thinking of their 
tower as some sort of rigid rod (sorry about that :-)), agonizes over 
their rotator brake.

-Steve K8LX