I've got a TriEX W51 crank up and its just much easier to rent a scissors lift for the weekend (rent it on Saturday AM and you get it usually all day Sunday too for the 1 day price) and do all the wo
Back in the late 1980s my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and I looked at a house on an acre of land that had 3 towers on i, 1-60 and 2-40 ft ones. It turned out the owner wouldn't negotiate on the price at all, s
Clay: Have you tried Texas Towers? Gerald usually has most of thew Rohn accessories in stock. Tom, WW5L _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
A word about using Rohn's flat plate mounts. Several years ago I helped the XYL of an SK dispose of her OM's ham equipment. One of the last things sold was his 60 feet of Rohn 25 tower. It was attach
Carl: This one was in horrible shape. I'm surprised it last as long as it did. The ham's QTH was next to a creek and his home flooded several times, so I'm sure that didn't help things. The steel and
While I'm not a land appraiser, I just know how they appraised my current QTH. They took a list of "comparable" homes both in my neighborhood and outside it and somehow came up with a value. To my kn
Greg: My son and daughter in law live in an HOA area in Argyle TX north of Fort Worth TX and they recently asked if it was OK to put up a basketball goal in their backyard so my grandson could shoot
Jake: Yes, I know of at least two hams near me that did just that. IF I remember correctly they just bought a second top section for an HDBX 48 and bolted it onto the top of the 48ft tower. Tom, WW5L
FYI: Before I get flamed, yes, this was the way at least one ham did it, bolting a second section to the TOP of his HDBX 48 to make an HBX 56. He already had the bottom section concreted in, so he ju
Ron: I use A TriEX W51 crank up, now made by Tashjian Towers (Karl Tashjian) is a former TriEx engineer, and am very happy with it as are my neighbors hi hi. Its 50 feet, but at times I wish I had a
Since we're on ground rod forum, has anyone seen at Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. the standard copper clad ground rods longer than 8 feet? I'm sure they are out there someplace, just haven't seen them. Or
Rusty: I have a TriEX W51 crank up, just 50 ft. and in my instructions it limited the largest HyGain rotor to the Ham IV. Your instructions should say something similar, at least mine in 1993 did. Wh
I also have used the ones from Harbour Freight with no problems. Haven't used it on 1.5" cables but they work FB on shrink wrap for most RG8 cables. Besides you can't beat the price comp[ared to what
Steve: There's not a FEMA installation or one of the major airlines have a facility of some type nearby is there? That same tower looks like the one American Airlines has/had at their headquarters so
Dan: That's the FEMA North Texas regional office. It goes something like 2-3 stores underground and as I understand it has several verticals that are normally in tubes in the ground, but can be raise
Fellow Tower Talk subscribers: Anyone know of a good commercially made coax, ground cable, and rotor cable "feed through"? My XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and I are replacing the leaky, non-weather tight, etc.
I'm having to redo my feed through window (XYL wanted new windows) which will necessitate cutting the LMR400 preassembled cable I bought 3 years ago. Will the "standard" PL259 work on LMR400 or is th
Barry: I usually use the silver PL259s, not the cheap mass produced ones, but good ones "easy" to solder hi hi. I bought a dozen recently of the silver ones from Texas Towers in Plano. Tom, WW5L ____
Yep. The ARRL Handbook used to show a dummy load, made up of a roll of lossy, unterminated coax immersed in a bucket of water. I suppose you *could* terminate it, with something, anything, or short i
Back in 2000 I bought a 4 ft. copper station ground buss bar with studs for each piece of equipment to be grounded to from a ham in Stamford CT who made them. He had an ad in QST, CQ. All I know is h