K1VUT (I think) touched on this last week.... Please e-mail k4oj@aol.com direct if you have experience with the narrower diameter ham coax, I believe it is RG8X. - I may have the p/n wrong - it is th
My request for input from RG8X users as to its suitability for 3.5MHz use has produced a ton of e-mail....much of it from fellow contesters....every piece speaks favorably for using it, especially on
I have been spending late nights with Yagimax - trying different combinations for the new 20 meter 4 over 4 stack. RE: The option when stacking for phase differential is I assume correctly addressed
The flood of replies I received on the up side for RG8X usage as a feedline for 80 meter sloping dipoles was astounding.....but there were a few guys who noted that since I live in FL and since this
So much for loading it on 160, but, could you train the vines to carry a piece of #14 CU along with it on its way up, now that's the question...... k4oj -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/tower
been a long time since I was called a gentleman! I was surveying the troups as to whether RG8X would be suitable for feed lines at 3.5 MHz....my interest specifically being for feed lines of sloping
please share your response from the group...when I asked a similar question last week the consensus was to go to the old NCJ article by K8CC.....it has been so long since it was written that I questi
Most yagi installations @ HF have the attachment of the beam to the mast at approximately the middle - or - center of gravity along the boom. When you get up to the VHF and UHF stuff you see end moun
Here's a story for a man named Brady, and his fellow towertalkinans on line..... I recommend you print this Frank, and wrap a copy of it around the money order or check you are about to overnight. As
....an important point brought up here is the missing nuts n washers...... oscillations/vibrations happen in beams and towers and they are transferred to everything in the mechanical system....this i
I found a website the other day for Max-Gain systems, and Antenna Mart which was bought out by a Georgia Ham whose thing appears to be BIG QUADS (Antenna Mart = formerly the ole W0MLY operation - x-H
these little jewels are great....if you have any kicking around you wish to part with let me know....there are two cast pieces which bite down on the mast when you tighten them....I think they use th
Barbara seems very nice....thought I would forward her e-mail for the "official skinny" on them clamps el jugo -- Forwarded message: From: Karon.Harris@telex.com To: K4OJ@aol.com To: <towertalk@conte
hmm, lemme try this idea out for you with the group's input.... LONN (lack of nads necessary) could possibly be overcome by the following.... I am assuming you will be able to completely build your s
if you do not want to mess up the brick condsider drilling through the mortar joint.....use threaded brass rods with porcelain wall throughs- you have seen them... use one set of nuts to really pull
I have seen some specs on the LMR coxes and they sound like its soft hardline. I have been using RG213 for the flex coax runs at the antennas....most of the feeds are CATV hardline which goes soft wh
Fred When I built the big 20 meter beam two years ago I toyed with how I would truss the boom. The smallest size of Phillystran does not use guy grips, but the second size does. The fact that I could
an early tip received from the late W3GRF was that you never put a hole in a tube, its compromising of the tube's strength is unquestionable....I know 20-20 hindsight, me too! You may wish to re-desi
Grout is used frequently in commercial construction, there are several types available, I remember metallic and non-metallic as existing but forget why you want one or the other . What grout is, is b
guys, guyz - you are missing the most important point. HAVE THE REPLACEMENT MAST AND ANTENNAS QRV! When the truck extracts your bent mast and drops it to the ground, have the new x-HD chrome molly lo