stopped house areas(used More than likely its not the hits that has dropped, but having the downleads has prevented the hits from causing fires by providing a low resistance path around the outside
when the the don't left rods a nothing you can do on the ground is going to do anything more than slightly attract a downward moving leader from a cloud once it gets started. You can do this by prov
have you have been lucky. And maybe your system is working, after all you can't watch it 24 hours a day, and not all strokes leave visible damage... it is possible that your good ground has worked a
For whoever was looking for a new antenna reflector just a reminder there is antennas@mailman.qth.net that is not very active but still works. Also there is the rec.radio.amateur.antenna newsgroup th
Because it is not always possible to dig the exact size holes due to soil types. Up here if you tried to dig a 4' deep 3'x3' hole for a base it would collapse from the bottom up as the hole filled wi
My first questions are, of course, what kind of tower is it and what does the manufacturer say? On your specific questions: heavy poles) straight Not necessarily, it depends on their rating, and how
The cfa and eh are different, but your description applies to both. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
I think you missed one small factor. You have to consider how many contesters are on the other end of each path. Figuring a great figure of merit to zd8 is good, but if it only produces one qso its n
I also think its great and hope it stands up to a court test. If only more areas had laws like this.... unfortunately we probably won't see much local action on this front as it most areas it is a re
$1000 certain placed Un-possible. You have stated a problem where no one could win. By requiring a 'properly designed' tower and 'properly placed' guy wires you could take any example sent and say i
Anyone know a good source for custom made coax cables... I hate soldering pl-259's and expect to need a dozen or more cables made for various upgrades planned for this summer. I would want a place th
Thanks to everyone for their inputs on sources for custom made cables, I'm sure they will be some help for me. I also hope that others can make use of the various suggestions for installing pl-259's
Even better are the wireless headsets with vox. Hands free on the tower, but keep the ground crew on ptt so they don't accidentally interrupt instructions from the tower. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail:
i think that in most cases it is safer not only from personel viewpoint but also from structural considerations to use a bracketed tower next to the house than to put a tripod or some other arrangeme
Just a warning though... if you are going to spray up the tower wear at least goggles, a spray mask, and gloves, and preferably use a full face shield. Those sprays are good when you are on the groun
How does a stationary gps point north? David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net Garmin the the then "Wireless w
I have just updated my web page with new information on how to get CTWin to talk to CT/dos using nettsr. This makes it easier to link CT/dos machines on an Ethernet with a telnet cluster. I have also
ARGH!!!!! Jdbgmgr.exe is not a virus! This is an old hoax, please don't pass this on. Please see: http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#jdbgmgr before passing on th
what is amazing is how well the tower apparently survived. i would be very worried about weakening of joints and would carefully inspect all bolts and the legs for damage. as for guying with screw an
Some of that data for two types of coils is on my web page at http://www.k1ttt.net/technote/airbalun.html, it might give you some idea of what you are looking for and some of the things you must cons