[TowerTalk] Rotator Loop

[Robert Harmon]

I undersatnd what you are saying but it doesn't make any difference if you start at the middle as long as you leave enough slack in the coiled coax to travel the full 90 degrees both ways.     Either way it will use the same amount of coax.   The other consideration is to insure that the coil radius is large enough to exceed the minimum bend radius recommended for the coax.   I plan to make it a generous radius to allow for this.   I have used the "drop rotator loops" for years on my towers and I think this will be an improvement.  We'll see..............


73,
Bob
K6UJ




> On Nov 20, 2020, at 9:19 AM, Wilson Lamb <infomet at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> "whether to start with the rotator at mid travel or all the way around"Think about what you've said here.If you start at half range and make it tight, you'll break the coax as you turn farther.If it's as tight as you want at full rotation, any other direction will be OK.I don't see any option other than at full rotation as your reference point.WL
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