[Boatanchors] Beam elements
Robert Nickels
ranickel at comcast.net
Wed May 13 14:01:52 EDT 2009
Jim wrote:
> Memories!!
> One of my first young Ham trips up a tower was to take down a "Cliff
> Dweller" for an OT. (even more OT than I am now)
> The OT was replacing motor capacitors, I think. Are the motors AC?
Yep, AC induction motors, just like antenna rotator motors. You can
lose the new replacement caps in the space the old ones took up. Here
are some pics of the Cliff Dweller construction and installed on my test
mast:
http://picasaweb.google.com/RANickels/CliffDwellerAntenna#
73, Bob W9RAN
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