[TowerTalk] High VSWR

Glenn Pritchard gpritchard7000 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 1 09:04:12 EDT 2019


The antenna and tower design was fine, we had over the years installed quite a few of these systems from Sabre, Hy-Gain, Rockwell to US Antenna and never had a failure.
It was unfortunate that the clamps were not torqued to spec.
Reading from the projects start there were issues with the pressurized line etc.
These tilt over LP’s are made to do this along with that tilt boom bracket.
Cable crimp’s were never used on these turnkey LP antennas that we had installed and the rotation system has been pretty much standard.

Glenn, VA7UO 

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> On Sep 1, 2019, at 5:13 AM, "dj7ww at t-online.de" <dj7ww at t-online.de> wrote:
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> That is a bad idea, the torque force on the rotor under high winds will become much larger.
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> Peter
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> ##  with  more  boom on the  shorter ele  side.....vs  the   longer  ele  side, the required  rotor
> torque  will  be  sky high.   They  have  mounted the  boom  at its   CG.   They  should have 
> mounted at  center of  boom,  and  added  a counterweight  at  light  end  of  boom. 
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