[TowerTalk] Swinging gate antenna mount

[Steve Maki]

1) If you have soft limits available, you set them at appropriate spots.

2) If you thought it through as far as which leg of the tower to use, 
you shouldn't often need to get close to hitting the tower.

3) If you're using a typical low torque rotator, no damage is done if 
you run the boom into the tower. The point of impact is far enough from 
the rotator that there isn't much force happening out there. Arrange 
your cabling so it doesn't get squeezed in that event.

4) You could devise a cushion. You're not going to harm the tower. But 
you don't want to leave the boom parked against the tower where constant 
wind could eventually impact an aluminum boom if it's a thin walled type.

-Steve K8LX

On 06/05/20 17:41 PM, Robert Harmon wrote:

> Dumb question.   When using the swinging gate, how do you make sure when the rotator swings it around it won't hit the tower ?