Trying to locate some replacement parts for a Cushcraft A3 which is currently being refurbished. Cushcraft will NOT supply direct to anyone outside the US and their dealer here in the UK is slow to r
Thanks to the great number of offers of assistance from the Tower Talk community I now have this requirement sorted. My appreciation to all those who contacted me direct - THANKS guys! 73 Steve GW4BL
Bought a pair of ICE419a filters, they arrived about six weeks ago, and I found the 10m section to be faulty on one of the units (high SWR); I believe the 270pF capacitors need replacing but have bee
In response to Keith NM5G - Re: I called ICE and they had new caps back to me the next day for both units. I beefed up one of the units in the 10M section with extra caps obtained from Mouser "I have
Anyone have experience of using a multi-band sloping Vee beam? In preparation for National Field Day here in the UK we are considering something along those lines. We are restricted, by the contest r
Thanks to those who have responded; here's some clarification on one or two points: There are *two* 'Field Days in the UK (/Europe), the first on June 5/6th is CW only and covers 160 to 10 metres, th
I have a question concerning 'sleeving' (can't think of a better way to describe it) - I have a 16' x 2.5" OD thick-wall aluminium tube that will be used as a stub mast, would inserting 6' x 2" OD th
Thanks guys, both off and on reflector for the replies. What a great source of knowledgable people this is. To answer the query, the 'thick wall' is 4.5mm, which in non-metric terms equates to 0.23 i
An Internet search of 'Create rotators' has often revealed an apparent lack of any sort of customer support, however my recent direct dealings with the company, in Kawasaki Japan has proved otherwise
Hi, Need to make common-mode choke to give maximum impedance at 28 MHz, coax is RG-213, but unsure of Fair-Rite part number for mix-43 toroids (order would be to mouser, so an appropriate part number
Wow! quick reply, many thanks. Steve GW4BLE Sent from my iPhone 5S _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@con
Hi All, My original post of a few days ago certainly produced some response! The reason for the posting was to do with experiments concerning a triplexer/BPF's and the need to eliminate 14 MHz RF app
Aimed at UK readers I guess : anyone ever installed a ring rotator (or similar) on the bottom section of a HD60 Strumech versatower ? Reason? I would like to be able to install and rotate a small 50