Quoting Lance Homer who wrote on Wed 2016-04-13 at 23:56:
I'm an amateur radio operator who is thinking about getting into communicating via satellites. As I've been looking into the Elk vs the Arrow antennas and trying to decide which to buy....all of the videos and the pictures I see of the Arrow on a a tripod always have it mounted on the far end at the handle. Many use a counterweight but some do not. I was wondering if mounting in the middle of the beam where it is more balanced weight-wise is possible or if there is some reason people do not do this?
My arms are tired of holding the Arrow and trying to get over nearby houses so I now have a rotor available and for mounting the arrow on it I am looking at something like the setup pictured in
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/3yip8i/made_a_mount_for_my_ar...
(from someone who also frequents this list)
The 2 meter gamma match (and the split in case of a split-boom Arrow antenna) are indeed near the center of gravity.
Koos van den Hout