[TowerTalk] Rohn 65G Accessories

[Steve Maki]

Easier to install, since you don't have to drop your mast in thru the 
tower top.

Easier to service, especially the rotator. You simply clamp the mast 
(using a muffler clamp just above the top of the collar pipe) to keep it 
from slipping down, unbolt the rotor shelf (from the parallel angles), 
take two (out of four) bolts out that are holding the parallel angles to 
the tower, splay those angles outward, loosen the rotor from the mast, 
and drop it (along with the mounting plate) straight down to the ground.

-Steve K8LX

On 3/24/2022 1:55 PM, Ken Alker wrote:
> As a newbie, what is the advantage to side-mounting, as you've shown in 
> your picture?
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> --On Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:45 PM -0400 Steve Maki 
> <lists at oakcom.org> wrote:
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>> **resent in straight ascii mode.
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>> When I needed the same for my R80 tower I decided to side mount my big 3L
>> 40. I only needed a bunch of angle, a piece of pipe for the collar, and
>> the mast of course.
>>
>> For many years I had a Telrex rotator up there, but I now have a Spid
>> BigRAK turning the 3L, which surprisingly has no trouble.
>>
>> I like the side mount solution so well that if I were starting over, all
>> my top yagi's would be mounted this way.
>>
>> BTW the funny looking boom to mast clamp is my version of a tilt boom
>> gizmo.
>>
>> https://app.box.com/s/szbzl1ns0tbr1q7cxkisjacavgrcrihu
>>
>> -Steve K8LX
>>
>> On 3/23/2022 11:14 PM, Byron Tatum wrote:
>>> Anyone know where to obtain rotor and bearing shelves for the 65G
>>> tower?Thanks, Byron W5FH _______________________________________________
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