[TowerTalk] "...//..winds here in the winter that are pretty bad."

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

I figure any rotator I use should be capable of turning the antenna 
regardless of winds.  After tearing up a few of the ham series and an 
HDR-200, or 300 (forget which). It looked rugged, but I released the 
brake on a windy day.  It wen't past the stops and tore up 4, of 5 
pigtails.  That's when the PST61 went up.  That had a design problem 
with the top seal, but it'd turn and stop normally regardless of the wind.

73

Roger (K8RI)


On 3/4/2015 1:06 PM, Mike Bragassa wrote:
> My "war story":When we lived in Casper, Wyo., the Chinooks blew
> regular...and a lot. Then, on my trusty Heathkit wind gauge, I have seen,
> regular gusts of 50-70 mph. The elements on my TH7DXX and Cushcraft  2 ele
> 40 would whip like long fishing poles. Never a break or bent element.
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> Did have another ham who lost the tip section of one element on his TH-6.
> Probably landed in Nebraska, somewhere, as we never were able to locate the
> missing piece.
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> I kept the rotor repair places in business repairing my Tailtwisters. I kept
> 1-2 for backup while one was in for repair. Damage was my fault for turning
> the stack while the chinooks were blowing. The wind would take-over and stop
> the antenna where they wanted it to stop. Sorta'  played havoc with the
> Tailtwister  brake trying to stop the rotation, eh...
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> de Mike, K5UO  (Wyo:  NS7Z)
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> Hi Brian
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> Don lives just up the coast from me, and we get the winds here in the winter
> that are pretty bad.  Not like the hurricanes you guys get in Florida, but
> we have at least one storm a year with winds of 90-100 mph.  Cape Blanco,
> which is about 50 miles south of me, gets winds of
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> 120 occasionally.  It's just that they don't call them hurricanes here, just
> 'a storm.' 73 Tom W7WHY
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73

Roger (K8RI)


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