Hi Joe, I think I have to agree with Mikes assement. "Nozis" is an accurate description for most Homeowners associations as they relate to towers. When I was visiting open houses in Florida for a pos
Hi All, I am planning a new EME array that will overload my 2 1/2" mast. This mast is fastened to the attic floor, 4 feet below the roof. It is obvious that I need to either strengthen the mast or ad
Hi Pete, Why fight the dragon if you can persuade him to take another path? Why is the lightening visiting your rotor contol box anyway? Could it be that tastey AC power line ground at the other end
Hi All, It has been my observation in looking at short yagis in free space, that a yagi with an already good front to side ratio my readily be stacked with 3 db gain. If you start with a yagi with a
Hi All, Perhaps someone would confirm what I think I am seeing. I am using a TR44 rotor that was upgraded to Ham M by adding bearings to the race. It served me in the 80's with a TA33 on it which str
Nat: I've used a Klein Model 9483 belt since 1988 that was primarily designed for tree trimmers. It has a padded 3 inch wide double sewn webbing around the waist and a second heavy piece of webbing t
Fellow TT list members: State Farm also hit me with an increase after I filed a lightning damage claim. In addition, they are imposing HUGE premium increases on all their Texas policyholders, this ma
Hi All, I am designing my next EME array and had some question about calculating windloading. The array will be primarily round tubing so I am applying a .66 correction factor to show the round tubin
HI All, I think Don is right on the money. A nice way to do this is to use a relay with sufficient contacts on it. Use an indicator LED at each control box location to tell which control box is on (L
Hi All, I am designing a VHF yagi array and strongly considering using fiberglass for the booms. Does anyone have a strength rating for fiberglass that is useful to the layman? For example, if 10 fee
Rick, et al, One thing you're forgetting, Rick, is the potential NEW hams who already have a house. If they discover ham radio and they're already living in a restricted neighborhood I doubt they wil
Ken, fellow tower talk members: When my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and I bought our current QTH in 1992 we told the realtor we were using that we wanted a home in a neighborhood WITHOUT a neighborhood associa
Lee, et. al.: They and First Call did the same to me when I inquired about an extra base for a WT51 in case XYL and I moved. They gave me several different prices for the same thing. Tom, WW5L . ____
http://www.rotorservice.com/ I just tried the above link and it worked fine for Norm's. Tom, WW5L ________________________________________________________________________ Where do you get ICE bandpas
David, Stu: Just to show you how much the EPA, State of Texas, and local cities fear/whatever transformer oil. A few yeas ago a car (a new BMW) hit a power pole on the next block from where we live,
I have a note that says the length of the 75 ohm matching section used with the HF6V. 11'6". 73 Jim K7SLI List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower systems, Trylon Titan towers, c
Don: Never climbed a really tall TV tower, but I once did a newspaper feature story on a sandblasting/painting crew that was redoing a couple hundred foot water tower in the town where I worked in th
Fellow TTers: I once stopped by a QTH in Houston to pick up a radio for a friend in Dallas and the ham that had been repairing it had a 6 element triband beam at 105 feet. He had no problem working a