The sep kit that I have consists of some studs that go into the el rotor housing where the bracket was, and some nuts and "muffler clamps" (like 1/2 a u-bolt and clamp) that clamp the rotor housing to the side of the mast. The bottom end of the mast goes into a regular mast mount clamp (GC-038?) turned "upside down", and installed on the top of the az rotor. You could use two of these to mast-mount the az rotor, and then put a mast on the top. I use the sep kit with a G-5500 and an 8' Glen Martin tower. The az rotor goes on the tower shelf, and the mast goes up through the top of the tower and thrust bearing, and I have the el rotor about 6' above the thrust bearing. This gives me enough room to do a full 180 elevation flip with my antennas, and still clear the ground. I'm going to mount the whole shebang on a little Harbor Freight trailer this year, and tow it down to our Field Day site. Should be much easier than building everything up "from scratch" each year! 73, Jim
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 faunt@panix.com wrote:
From: Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 faunt@panix.com Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: springtime project To: kq6ea@pacbell.net Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 5:31 PM Really! The ones I've seen from Yeasu top-mounted the elevation rotator.
73, doug
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:26:10 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Jerzycke kq6ea@pacbell.net
Well, the one I have mounts the rotor to the *side* of the mast. If you put enough mast through it, I suppose you could mount another antenna on top, but I'd get worried about the bending moment with something big on top.
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 faunt@panix.com wrote:
From: Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: springtime project To: kq6ea@pacbell.net Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 5:00 PM Ah, but that separation kit mounts the elevation
rotator on
top of the mast, so if you want to mount an antenna above it,
you
still need something custom. It's not that hard to do,
it's
just that having an antenna above the satellite antennas can cause a
problem
either because of physical or electrical obstruction.
73, doug
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:37:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Jerzycke kq6ea@pacbell.net
You can also get a separation kit from Yaesu
that lets
you mount the rotors apart. I've got one and it
works
fine. Jim KQ6EA
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, George Henry
wrote:
From: George Henry ka3hsw@att.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: springtime project To: "amsat bb"
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 4:03 PM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Cole"
To: "George Henry"
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: springtime
project
[snip]
You can separate the elevation section
from
the
azimuth section of
the B5400. Then you attach the
elevation
section to
the side of the
mast with a custom-made bracket.
73, Ed - KL7UW
Ahhhh.... custom bracket. Shoulda thought
of
that.....
DOH!
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