Okay, this thread no longer has any useful tower or HF antenna construction info. Let's leave politics behind and get back into the 'heavy metal' topics we all know and love. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TT A
Umm, not exactly. The 'rattling' is generally due to low-windspeed induced element vibration - it goes away when the wind speed increases. The constant vibration causes metal fatigue and element fail
Howdy, TowerTalkians -- Here's a place to go for some good products and apparently now some good online information. There's a periodic thread about people not being able to find the ICE site - maybe
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Okay, the forwarded stuff got stripped. Here it is again: As you know I had to drop Tower-Talk due to the volume of mail I get but I still enjoy looking at the archives once in a while to catch up. I
It shouldn't unless there's a cut in the jacket that allows water to get it. The more common problem is water in the connector due to poor weatherproofing. Mostly. If it looks like an antenna (dip in
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For years I've been NOT pinning masts because many times the mast slips in the rotator in the wind and it's easier to recalibrate the antennas than it is to do a rotor swap. With big wind-induced tor
Ah, one of the tower climber's best friends. Ah, the tower climber's OTHER best friend! Why's that? A biner is rated at a whole bunch of kilo-newtons which is a measurement of a dynamic load, not lik
The original question was for a 'small' HF beam and the poster said that the C-3 was too 'big'. Here's my suggestion: Get a C-3SS (the smallest footprint C-3) and bend the ends of the elements down.
Butterfly, Nope - I meant what I said. The published gain figures for F12 antennas corroborate what we found in our tribander comparison tests so they're credible. The published difference in gain be
You're short parts or something? My AB-105 doesn't have any horizontals so don't know what your quandry is. Personally I wouldn't worry about the horizontals - the diagonals are the structural member
I carry 5-6 foot-long steps in my equipment trailer for this very purpose. They're just pieces of angle steel or aluminum drilled for 2" and 3" U-bolts and saddles. Just install them about a foot apa
Putting in lots of ground rods? This may be just the ticket - <A HREF="http://www.groundhawgs.com/">http://www.groundhawgs.com/</A> Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TECH
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