[TowerTalk] Wind noise

[David Gilbert]

If it is the tower that is vibrating, he could probably dampen it by 
putting tension on it with a length of rubber hose (or some other 
similarly mechanically lossy material).  His tower is bracketed to the 
house, so a hose fixed to the tower near the top and running to 
somewhere else on the house should significantly help.

73,
Dave   AB7E




On 3/14/2021 9:53 AM, Charles Morrison wrote:
> The vibrations of the entire tower is being transferred into the house. It
> won’t matter what is on the tower.
> The only remedies are:
> -Cushion the bracket-to-tower
> -Disconnect the bracket if your tower is not a tiltover base or baseplate.
> -Add a 2nd bracket mid-way, but this will only change the frequency of the
> vibration tone.
> -Take the tower down, move the tower location, or switch to wires only
> -Live with it
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:45 PM Al Kozakiewicz <akozak at hourglass.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a short tower bracketed to the house adjacent to my shack. See QRZ
>> page. C3, 6M3 and 2M7. I have a low frequency noise when the wind blows and
>> I suspect the C3 is the source. Sounds like an airplane is flying close by.
>> Rotating the antenna so that it is perpendicular to the wind direction
>> diminishes the volume somewhat.
>>
>> It is not a huge deal, but I'd like to keep the antenna pointed into the
>> wind when it blows. Is there any simple way to eliminate or cut down on the
>> noise?
>>
>> Al
>> AB2ZY
>>
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