[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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