ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!! Please don't dispense advice based on pragmatic experience. Schedule 40, 80, whatever, pipe was designed to carry liquids and gasses, not to support anything. You will not find struc
I used a couple of Cushcraft U bolts on my KT34A (stolen from my 2 meter beams). They also galled badly. One of the myths in our hobby is that stainless steel (300 series and 18-8) is the magic answe
<< Steve the fantastic BUZZ words these days is ISO90001, which is great for the suiters and watercooler gang. But hams look for results. Wow. ISO 9000 is now being blamed for poor antenna peformance
<< I found this unnecessary and unfunny. Steve has tried to explain what happened. >> I agree. We are just beginning to see ham radio manufacturers take some ownership for their own quality and liste
<< on exactly how they are positioned when they are tightened down the first time. In his case, we solved the problem with some inserts made of aluminum flashing material, available at your local bui
There are no exceptions for ham towers. We follow the exact same regs as everyone else. Redundancy in the type-approved lighting fixtures usually keeps you out of trouble from having a "blackout". Wh
<< >have plans for, and IS ALREADY PIERCED by existing 65 foot Whoa, guys. There is a big difference between filing your construction permit with the FAA and FCC and being required to obstruction mar
<< The protein in the venom caused an exaggerated reaction. >> Yep, its called anfalactic (sp?) shock. All of the blood vessels in your body constrict, as does your airway. Given a severe enough reac
<< Please restrict for sale items on this list to towers or antennas only. Thanks. Bill C'mon gang, let's heed the list moderators' guidelines and stick to the theme of each reflector. I get over 80
Cornell Dubiler, or CDE was the company that made the HAM and TTX series of rotors before Telex bought them. The control boxes are up and down compatable with all series of their HAM and TTX rotors.
I've been told by sysops to use omnidirectional antennas so that the other users can hear your signal and avoid collisions. I have had great success with Diamond base station antennas. They have lots
Does anyone have a 4-Ubolt KLM boom-to-mast bracket for a 3" boom in their junk box that they want to part with? When upgrading from a KT34A to an XA, they do not furnish a new boom to mast bracket.
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We keep talking about Polyphaser like they are the olny lightning game in town. Mike Koss at ICE has an excellent line of grounding, bulkhead and suppression equipment. I used his stuff at K5XI and w
The young lady at Hy Gain finally returned my call after 2 days (last week). She was very pleasant and responsive, but thought my request to get the parts in less than 2 weeks was unreasonable becaus
<< Any tricks of the trade out there for getting this right the first time? >> 1. Place the boom on a couple of saw-horses. Attach a piece of mast to the boom-to-mast bracket and secure. Make it long
<< Your eyeballing technique will get it to within less than a couple degrees of alignment and that's good enough for an antenna that will 10s (or 20s) of feet above the ground for "looks" and it wil
More useful than the nearly 3db of gain is the fact that you will have 3 antennas (upper, lower, both) at three different heights. One more thing about the KT34XA stacking, be sure the + mark on the
Don't get discouraged. Check with local clubs. Every where I have lived, we have formed a "Beam Team" or "Quad Squad" where different folks owned different antenna raising equipment like gin poles, t
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