[TowerTalk] PST61 Rotor Reliability?

[Wes Stewart]

Never said they would.  I was responding to Gary.

On 12/12/2017 2:31 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> I guarantee that those articles are not going to say anything about winds that 
> rotate.  There is no such thing as "aerodynamic balancing" in the case of 
> rotating winds.  Anything you add to the structure in an attempt to do so 
> simply adds to the problem.
>
> I truly do not see how this is so difficult to understand.  It's high school 
> physics.
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 12/12/2017 10:20 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
>> 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
>>>