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

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

I had a 3-turn loop/coil laying on the 45G flat top plate.  It was wound 
like a clock spring allowing close to 600 degrees CW and nearly twice 
that CCW  for cases just like this.  How it ever made it around CW to 
pulling the cables tight, I'll never know.

73

Roger (K8RI)

On 3/4/2015 11:23 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
> Roger a best thing to do with the HDR-300 is to remove the stops and have
> enough coax looped around the mast to take care of 360+ rotation.
> Doug
>
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> 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)
>
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Roger (K8RI)


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