One of the neat things about rotors and beams brought to light by K0PP was that if you are using a typical rotatator it turns at about 1 RPM. Because things are moving slowly the same kind of toleran
The past few towers we have put up at W1CW/W1YL were put up with the following lube job - worked well - we will be rewarded when they have to come apart! This procedure was used on the tower that had
LXC is right on this one - without the guying it would be real easy for your tower to look like the patrons at Mile Marker 88 by 10 PM (hell - make that 5 PM), slightly leaning! Tell your ham neighbo
Slump is an indicator of how stiff your mix is big guy.... It is not directly related to how many PSI the concrete is... There is a tube which is filled with some of the mix and when that tube is sli
You should have seen how much water was trapped inside the boom of the 20 meter yagi that went underwater in the rains of the Fall of 97....by the time we could put the beam up, yes the waters had re
easiest fix to this is to go in at the base of the section - taking advantage of the top and bottom portion of the legs before/after the bracing stops. I have done this, using an inverted rotor shelf
sounds like a "deal" I got last year - I was advertising for some Rohn 25 (still looking for same) - deal was you take it down and you can have it....GREAT - sounds like my kinda deal. 20) had defini
form Mike's msg this eve........ "Towers!!! SNAP!!! Boy there is 2 words that dont belong together!" Mike, don't get bent over this! Relax, heh heh - its less than two weeks til the Florida QSO Party
Keep your eyes open at Flea Markets, not necessarily the Ham type - for boxes of house wiring - usually 250 feet long rolls of say 14/3........usually you can offer someone five or ten bucks for thes
wow......... the VA hams do have a nice piece of legislation, hopefully it can act as precedence for other legislation and ease the peril of the ham who just wants to put up an antenna so he can effe
The pointy top does not come with a rotator shelf, but the flat top needs TWO of them. One to mount the rotator on and the other one to provide a support point to keep the mast vertical while the rot
Following a thread from another reflector, I feel it is important to note the following comments by K4VUD, regarding protective coatings for antennas: "Clear coat is very hard to see (that is why the
no, contrary to what you had seen on the reflectors, it is: Less than a week til the Florida QSO Party on April 25 & 26! Just Work It! Phone on the hour - CW on the half hour....all 67 Florida Counti
Seems like the multiple anchors is also a way to make those sidemounted yagis easier to swing...the slope of the top guys may not be quite as steep allowing a greater turning radius! No matter how mu
Glad it just wasn't me - I though I was banned from the Contest Reflector for over solicitation, re the Florida QSO Party......so, since the two reflectors share a similar audience - here is the post
Dear Tommy, KN5RRC QSO parties are fun operating events, there is one this weekend starting at 1800 UTC on Saturday and running til 0400 on - then - you can take a nights sleep and do it some more on
while mobiling down the road this weekend in the Florida QSO Party a thud came as something hit the roof of the Blazer......now we know what it was, one of K4VUD (or N4GI's) bullets returning to eart
I think a good indication of how well the 40-2CD has been is the fact that it is virtually impossible to find a used one! The combination of a performing design coupled with the ability to turn it wi
yes this is legit......really I use a really nice multi-search engine called "dogpile" (even I could not make that up).........it uses about a dozen other engines...including the one K5MM mentioned..
where are W0UNs and W3LPLs comments........this is olde Towertalk turf being covered (gnd Vs un gnd elements in yagis) guess they both are QRL In several go rounds on this topic a year or so ago, las