[TowerTalk] tower/rotator woes...

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

And you torque balance a bank of 440 antennas with rear mounts, how?  
They were no problem with the dual worm gear rotator.
Unfortunately they were what I had.

73, Roger (K8RI)

On 2/20/2017 1:11 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:05:23 +0000
> From: Ken K6MR <k6mr at outlook.com>
> To: "towertalk at contesting.com" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower/rotator woes...
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> Which is exactly the reason you need to torque balance an antenna. If your antenna is torque balanced, there will be -zero- torque on the mast in any wind condition. If you release the brake and the antenna windmills, you need torque balancing.
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> Properly balanced, there will never be a condition where the rotator cannot turn ?against the wind?, because there is no torque generated by the antenna(s) for the rotator to overcome.
>
> Ken K6MR


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