[TowerTalk] PST61 Rotor Reliability?

[Wes Stewart]

See the two part article, "Aerodynamic Balancing" by Dick Weber, K5IU in the 
Summer 1994 and  Winter 1995 issues of Communications Quarterly.


  On 12/11/2017 7:34 PM, Gary Schafer wrote:
> I have from time to time seen it professed that mounting two antennas on
> opposite sides of the mast will equalize the torque supplied by wind.
>
> The only thing mounting on opposite sides of the mast will do is equalize
> GRAVITY forces on the mast (that try to bend it over) which will be rather
> small differences given only a few inches distance apart.
>
> Torque is rotational. Both antennas are going to exert the same amount of
> torque no matter which side of the mast they are on.
> What am I missing here?
>
> 73
> Gary  K4FMX
>