- 281. Everything you thought you knew about Rohn 45G wind loading is WRONG (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Wed Aug 14 09:14:59 1996
- Greetings, fellow towerophiles -- In the course of a tower construction project involving Rohn 45G, I made a discovery that I think has gone un-noticed by amateur tower owners and builders. In their
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-08/msg00084.html (9,096 bytes)
- 282. 45g wrong (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Wed Aug 14 13:31:18 1996
- Mike -- Yes, the 45G (and 55G) is capable of supporting an ADDITIONAL 8 square feet at the top of the tower. This was confirmed in a phone call to Rohn engineering this morning. The figure in the dra
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-08/msg00087.html (27,636 bytes)
- 283. REAL Multi-single (ARRL DX) (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Thu Aug 15 00:28:39 1996
- Will -- I agree!!! As someone said recently, I'm in favor of anything that'll make it more fun. Being able to slither around the bands, breaking pileups and working mults unimpeded by a ten minute wo
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-08/msg00091.html (17,510 bytes)
- 284. VE3BMV RF radiotiontorial (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Thu Aug 22 13:20:58 1996
- contester, look >up pre 1986 results - some 14 world records and all VE single band records in ww and >wpx) and it might save lives of other "heavy duty" over 200 lbs contesters that don't >know abou
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-08/msg00125.html (7,779 bytes)
- 285. New Rohn web page (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Tue Sep 3 14:45:10 1996
- Gretings, all -- I want to let you know that Rohn has a new web page. It's brand new so it doesn't have all of their information on-line yet. What is there is lots of 25G parts with neat drawings, es
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-09/msg00009.html (7,938 bytes)
- 286. contest calls - absolutely the end, I promise (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Tue Sep 3 20:08:40 1996
- And let us not forget the renowned WN4 Knickerbocker Knickerbocker Nicaragua. Invent your own! Fool the neighbors! Excite hams in other countries! Go where no other phonetics have gone before! I need
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-09/msg00012.html (10,589 bytes)
- 287. October CQ Contest out (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Sat Sep 14 04:21:25 1996
- And NO identifying any of the operators in the photo!! I think that's criminal. BTW, WX9E, K0PP and KE7X are ops I could identify. 73, Steve K7LXC
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-09/msg00067.html (6,447 bytes)
- 288. Kenwood Sales Manager (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Fri Oct 4 11:37:08 1996
- Dan -- There is letter in QST this month on the same topic - selling radios to unlicensed operators. Let me point out that SELLING radios to unlicensed individuals is not illegal. In fact, a retailer
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-10/msg00029.html (11,971 bytes)
- 289. The negative effects of packet on S/O Unass. (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Thu Oct 31 07:54:58 1996
- Isn't that the truth!?! What a colossal waste of time for HIM and ME. Pretty stupid operating IMO. BTW, this is why I sent a new Q signal request to the ARRL: QDC -- What's your damn call? 73, Steve
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-10/msg00216.html (17,985 bytes)
- 290. Force12 vs KLM vs Hygain vs (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Thu Oct 31 18:53:56 1996
- Walter -- I have written and presented at several conventions (including Dayton Contest Forum) a paper called "Building A One Tower Station" that addresses these antenna questions as well as a couple
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-10/msg00220.html (13,336 bytes)
- 291. Tower jack info requested (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Sun Nov 3 14:00:21 1996
- Greetings -- I'm researching information on a tower jack tool. This is a similar (identical?) device to the one being currently sold as the Tower*Jack for Rohn tower work; it pries sections apart as
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00038.html (9,751 bytes)
- 292. ROTOR Problem (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Mon Nov 4 11:20:58 1996
- Hi, Alex -- IMO your options (in decending order) are: Prop pitch -- will rotate a house and utterly reliable Orion 2800 -- a pretty good heavy duty rotator with worm drive (no brake required) and sp
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00044.html (7,319 bytes)
- 293. Please, callsign announcements (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Wed Nov 6 09:58:07 1996
- Personally, I'm getting a kick out of it. Come on, Barry, this is better than CHRISTMAS! Remember how you watched the mailbox everyday waiting for your first license? This is probably the only other
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00065.html (7,475 bytes)
- 294. Many thanks to AD1C (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Wed Nov 6 18:42:55 1996
- Hear, hear!! I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks, Jim! 73, Steve K7LXC I may be making a business trip to the Caymans shortly. Hopefully the CW CQWW will coincide with this trip. Are there
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00067.html (7,025 bytes)
- 295. To dupe or not to dupe.. (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Fri Nov 8 00:39:02 1996
- Pete -- Actually, some of us SS hotshoes start with serial number 500 or thereabouts. It's a good psychological ploy and allows me to beat last years score handily. Plays hell with the competition to
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00092.html (7,053 bytes)
- 296. ENOUGH OF THE VANITY CALL CRAP! Who Cares? (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Fri Nov 8 00:39:06 1996
- Let me see, in a contest, what do you spend half your life doing? Uhh...listening to CALLSIGNS?! You betcha, Red Ryder. A callsign is necessary and important to every contester. Since the last callsi
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00093.html (6,680 bytes)
- 297. Looking for Telrex TB-5 manual (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Sat Nov 9 09:45:22 1996
- Greetings -- I need a manual for a Telrex TB-5 tribander. Will be happy to pay for postage and copying. Reply direct and I'll give you the address. 73 and tnx, Steve K7LXC
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00120.html (6,044 bytes)
- 298. HDBX 48 and a 20m monobander (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Sun Nov 10 12:45:00 1996
- Ken -- I usually tell people to follow the factory specs but the antenna you mentioned should be no problem on the HDBX. I've known guys with much bigger antennas on them and they haven't had any pro
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00151.html (7,757 bytes)
- 299. Good vertical? (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Sun Nov 10 14:50:47 1996
- Hi, Bob -- First of all, ANY vertical on your list will work better with a decent ground radial system. Don't believe what they say about "no radials required" verticals. All of the aforementioned an
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00157.html (8,603 bytes)
- 300. To dupe or not to dupe (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Mon Nov 11 10:54:07 1996
- only Hi, Jimmy -- I agree provided of course that the operator has given his callsign recently. In many cases they do not. If I tune by and hear a pileup and all the opr is saying is "QRZ?", I'll cal
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1996-11/msg00167.html (7,875 bytes)
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