Well, not sure what you mean by "regular" tower inspections. Once a month seems a little extreme to me, unless you live in a extreme environment near the coast and where there are constant high winds
Joe, where did you order your Fulton K2550 from and is it a K2550 0101 or K2550 0301 model? I have a K1051/KX1051 on my HCX555 and am considering a different winch for raising to make it easier. The
I was assuming he might follow your suggestion to do that. On 80m it would be a top-loaded T, to be fed at low impedance against a good ground. On 40m it would be what G3VA describes as an "inverted
I checked my e-mail before heading off to bed and I was pleasantly surprised to have a very thorough set of drawings for the description of the HDX555 that I am ordering tomorrow from Texas Towers. I
Texas Towers just called and my quote for the HDX555 and all the accessories was ready. While I was there, one of the guys behind the counter got out their US Towers catalog and printed off the page
Not that I have ever noticed with 242. A small bottle lasts me for years, and it always seems the same. -- 73 from Ian GM3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB) http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
wrote: "Teflon" is a trade name, and can be used however its owners wish. When PTFE was first invented, both names meant the same thing. But DuPont have since developed a much wider range of related
Another place to look for the EBM Papst data sheet is http://.uk.farnell.com (an affiliate of Newark). Oh... see what you mean... no electrical data and no performance data either. Completely useless
There are certainly lots of cheaply-made 259/239 connectors around. Some of them use a white plastic that is meant to look like Teflon, but isn't. Weren't there some elbows that used a bent steel spr
I do not know where he comes up with that hearsay nonsense... The Yaesu G2800DXA does not have any of these alleged problems... I have MonstIR#1 - it has been up for 2 years... Far longer than any ot
That's good news, Bill - could you post some details or a link, please? It would be very hard to improve on the cheapest garden-variety white translucent stuff. This is amorphous polypropylene, which
Just so. If you don't have any glue-lined heat-shrink tubing of the right size, you can always "butter" the object with hot melt glue first, and then quickly apply the heat shrink over the top. That
A vertical with radials on the ground is a valid exception, though not for the reason you give. With no choke at all, the total ground return current at the feedpoint will divide itself among all the
I originally grouted the base of my UST as per the drawings... But when everything was up we found that the tower stuck a bit when it was rotated which is a symptom of slightly off skew tower... So w
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Actually the media types were totally biased against the ham... they only interviewed negative comments and took a very hostile view of the antenna... They took close ups of wires to highlight the ug
Take what you read on Eham.net with a grain of salt.... Have had a 51" Plasma HDTV located phyically directly underneath my beam for a couple of years and a 32" LCD-HDTV directly above my operating p
I am using a Yaesu G-2800DXA on a US Tower Rotor Base to turn MonstIR#1... No problems with it whatsoever for more than a year, but the Rotor base takes up the entire vertical load... Take a look at
Brett: The only problem I can see is that the Rebar would probably not be connected together as a single conductor and at best the different sections would be capacitively coupled. __________________
Looks good to me. The centre conductors in the Andrew cables are anchored against endways movement by the foam, and also their connectors are captive pin; so no problems there. Likewise the RG213 jum