Does anyone know the weight of a Rohn 55G section? Reason I ask is my tower is going to be re-galvanized and they charge by 100-weight. 73, Keith NM5G Rohn 55G regular section weighs 100lbs. The tape
Intersting thread. Local guy (K7KR) has rented one of the following for his installation and maintenace endeavors on this own system. He said that operation was easy, price was right, and he even got
Thought some of you might be interested in the following Quote from the "Valmont Safety and Installation Guidelines". Valmont manufactures Rohn compatible 25 and 45 series tower sections and is owned
You want ice?: Heliograph peak (10K ft. near Safford, AZ) <http:// www.carba.net/helio/helio.htm>. Bob, N7XY Those dudes out east just dont get it. Those "mountains" out east are merely small hills h
Thought some of you folks would like to know this. It is a 5/4/06 Press Release from Times Microwave Systems. No further details at this time. "Times Microwave to Increase Prices Due to Raw Materials
If this is an older SteppIR & therefore came with the original tubes, something to remember... Apparently the dielectric constant of later tubes is different than previous ones. Mixing old & new tube
I know the answer to this question is lurking here someplace. I need to repair a guy's KLM 4-40 feedpoint. Can you reach all of that from the tower/mast or am I going to have to be prepared to take t
John, I have a top section of Rohn 45 that is tapered and the hole is 2 9/16" diameter. N7RT Rohn manufactured several tapered top sections for 45. Catalog I have shows the following: 45AG top sectio
I was in the county, installed 100 ft tower 25 years ago no permits needed at that time. Need to move tower 50 ft. Now we been annexed into the city of Oregon City, OR. Can I move the tower without a
Hi All, Just wondering if any of you remember and know what became of a homebrew tower that was on the cover of QST somewhere in the 1980-1982 period. I think it was in Michigan, and it was made of p
Howdy, TowerTalkians -- Sorry for the bandwidth but is there an RFI reflector somewhere? I checked at qth.net and they don't have any. There's a local ham who can't use his new beam because of the RF
Bill; $400 Excessive? You have to be kidding. That's a joke, right? Good laugh for a holiday weekend start. The PE and land Surveyor both gave you a deal. If the PE had to run any kind of thorough st
Tower Talk folks; Any of you use the Idiom Press RotorCard - Yaesu DXA, for control of a Yaesu G-2800DXA rotator? Product reviews on eham.net seem good, but hardly anyone giving a review is familiar
Well I just mounted steppir 3 ele on the new tower and the next day we had a storm with 30+ mph winds. The beam is now of by aprox. 10 degrees. What can I do to fix this ? 73's Bill -- Something isnt
However, I am not aware that this is a problem in practice, and indeed two UK users report no problems when running a shunt fed tower on 160m, whilst simultaneously listening on HF on another receive
Talking about K2GL. I dont think I´ve seen many pictures at all from that station and somehow or another I missed to visit back in the 70:ties when I did a few spins around the US. Any pictures
I mispoke about the date. Now my memory says 1982 or so and not 1973, sorry. Age and hard living does strange things. ;-) I am sure there are a few here (N2AA, KR2Q, W5OV etc) that actually were ops
The media people make such a big deal out of the weather.If its cold,throw in some more wood.If it snows,jump in the tractor/truck and push it out of the way.If the power goes out,fire up the generat
Three inches out of 100 feet also requires an accuracy of 0.3 inches for a plumb bob string hung from a 10 foot section of tower. Three inches out of 100 feet calculates out to be a total angle of 0.
This is quite timely. I just got back from helping a friend take down a F12 5BA and F12 EF240/230 per his "10 yr maintenance plan". The insulators all looked in very good shape. This was after 11 yea