Barry, My tailtwister is 120 feet up and I can clearly hear the rotor. Be sure you put your ear against the tower. When the brake is released, you should hear a very distinct "clang" noise. ( I can h
If your rotator is not pinned to the mast (not a real good idea) you may have had some slippage(sp?) of the mast in the rotator U-bolts. I have seen this happen on a number of occasions. I have T2X r
I have had a XM240 up at 135 feet since 2001. I have never had problems with mine. I don't know how much the M2 antennas cost or their physical size but I think that the XM240 hits the "sweet spot".
Mine is resonant at 7.130 but the SWR rises much more quickly toward the bottom of the band so: 2:1 Points are 7.029 - 7276. (Almost 3:1 at 7.000) I don't particularly worry. My Alpha 87 (which is pr
I have a friend who "used to" have a two stack of KT34XA's. He lives about a file from me. We did some comparisons running the same power. My antenna is a F12 C-3E(the little one). He did the test us
I think people will believe anything! We had a small private Montessori school with some high tension lines running above the property in our town. The principal completely bought into the cancer sto
My tower guy came down off my Rohn 25 tower after doing some routine maintenance a couple of weeks ago. He said that I was missing three bolts out of the tower legs. I asked if he figured that they j
Your experience in this is clearly far greater than mine. I inspected the bolts that were visible from the ground and I didn't see any evidence of any rust. He told me that three bolts were missing a
When my tower went up in 2001 I knew that I was going to have to replace the T2X from time to time. After fooling with putting the rotator into the tower and talking to some guys that have done this
If I had that nice big tower I think I might buy that MonstIR antenna. You would get 10 - 40 (and WARC and it may even work 6?) and a pretty good antenna (only one rotator, thrust bearing and run of
Cam, Usually just rocking the rotator back and forth does the trick. I have had the problem on my Ham-M rotators many times and this trick always works for me. Just don't ever run your rotator all th
I had one fellow tell me that he could fix this by beveling down the brake a little. Didn't work. Bill, W5VX _______________________________________________ __________________________________________
Dick, The problem doesn't have anything to do with freezing or being against the stop. It never freezes here and I see the problem all the time. The problem is bigger if it is against the stop becaus
Gary, The C3E is a really nice antenna and works very well. You might give it a try. I think they are running about $830 now. They are very light and real easy to put together and put on the top of t
Be sure to listen to Phil and put some feet of EHS between the anchor point and the philistran. If you have trees, bushes, etc they will wear on the philistran, not to mention what fire will do. (Rem
Howdy Mark, I have the instruction manual in my hand and it says at the bottom of the page: 15 M Rear Driver tips have two adjustments available: 1 up and 1 down (std center freq is appx 21.225). Eac
I had a utility pole for about two years with a 5 ele 10 and 5 ele 15 mounted on it. It was about 75 feet long and buried about 10 feet, if I recall correctly. I bought and installed the steps. I had
Come on guys, calm down. I knew the second that someone mentioned the C31 and the Steppir in the same e-mail, we were going to war AGAIN! Both of these antennas are fine. Buy what you want. This emot
Lee, I stopped climbing towers some time ago. I was never comfortable asking anyone to volunteer to climb my tower and work on the antennas. When I moved to my current QTH, a small S. Texas town, I d
Howdy Larry, I asked the same thing not too long ago about Rohn 25 and someone (I don't remember who - but thanks a bunch) referred me to Hill Radio Communications. They sell these sets of bolts (lar