[TowerTalk] Wind Noise

[Al Kozakiewicz]

I appreciate all the suggestions.

I don’t think isolating the tower from the house is possible. Yes, I can slip some rubber or other material between the bracket and the house, but I probably over-engineered the anchors. They consist of threaded rod passed through the header in the gable end of the house along with two of the roof trusses. It is rigidly fixed with nuts and washers on each side of every member the rods pass through. The bracket is bolted to the rods.

Rope through the elements sounds like the way to go.

Al
AB2ZY

From: David Clemons <clemons.dave at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:24 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com; Al Kozakiewicz <akozak at hourglass.com>; David Clemons <clemons.dave at gmail.com>
Subject: Wind Noise

Hello Al,

Go to an auto repair shop and ask if you can have an old no-good truck tire tube - maybe you'll get it for free, maybe you'll pay $5 for it.  This will be very useful for many things.  Cut some of the tube and put it between the tower and the house brackets.

I use it to wrap coax lines if they might possibly rub on anything when the antenna is turned (i.e., the loop that wraps around the tower when an antenna is rotated).  I use it when I want a weather proof cover to an outside antenna relay box.  I use a piece of it to cover my padlock on my chain link fence so that water doesn't get into the lock and turn to ice.  You'll be surprised how many ways it can be used.

73,
Dave K1VUT