Here's a question for Steve and the crowd. I was given a Mosley Pro 67, but none of the hardware is there. No u-bolts, no spacer blocks, nothing. Mosley advises that it's going to be about 300 dollar
Actually, I was mistaken - it is a Mosely Classic 36. I went out and spread everything out, measured, and verified in the manual this time. Something tells me that the answer is the same... :-) I've
With the amount of metal a lot of guys have in the air (Bill, KC4PE has no small amount - I'm literally 10 miles up the road and have ogled his antenna farm several times. Hi, Bill!) and the number o
Upon a cursory read, it sounds like you're doing it right - bonding all the different grounding points together with your ground ring around the tower. Let the Motorola R56 standard guide you. It's t
Bill, if you don't bond the ground systems together to bring them all to the same potential, the lightning already has a path to the house - the feedline! Then it gets to go through the radio and to
All the commercial tower I worked around just had paint slathered on it all - feedlines, guy brackets, clamps, everything. Not saying it's right, per se, but that seems to be the standard. I can't se
Hard to go wrong with the Balun Designs products, or the COMTEK series the DX Engineering sells. They also have their own extremely robust stainless steel cased baluns that are worth checking out. Ju
To this reasonably new ham (2011), it looks like the antenna would be the "rotor" and the thing that spins it would be the "rotator." Hy-Gain and Yaesu seem to agree on their websites, as they call t
John - I've been quite satisfied with the Alpha Delta center piece for field expedient dipoles. It has a built in PL-259 and stainless steel studs to which you attach your wires. It also has stout po
D'oh! You're right, of course. I was multitasking.... that's what I get! Thanks for the correction! Matt _______________________________________________ ______________________________________________
Wow - and here I was looking forward to getting the T11! What sort of tower do you have, if you don't mind my asking? What are you unhappy with about the T11, and what are you looking to improve? Tha
Those aren't exactly unbiased websites! The fact of the matter is that there will be debate for a long time over the issue. Until the incidence of earthquakes occurring AT FRACKING DEPTH goes up a me
Patrick - what sort of antenna(e) are you putting up that covers 6m-80m? That sounds like what I need! Thanks, Matt KK4CPS _______________________________________________ ____________________________
That Dream Beam sure sounds nice! I hope you enjoy it! It's probably just a bit oversized for my 50' Rohn 25 tower, I'm guessing! *:-)* 73 Matt KK4CPS On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Patrick Greenl
Thomas - as the former owner of a small business, I always wondered if people were giving me a second chance if I made a mistake. I can tell you this - if I was made aware of a mistake, it was fixed,
That's great news, Thomas. If you're like me, being wrong is OK so long as you can at least learn from it. I'm glad it worked out well for you - good job on you to report it to the list! vy 73 Matt K
I would think your local(ish) steel yard is probably your best bet for that. That's gonna be a beast! What's it going in/on? What's going on it to require such a specification, just for curiosity's s
"...attempted public humiliation of me." Wow. Man, you've got some of the thinnest skin I've seen. Jim may not be what we'd call a people person, but his input is invaluable. Your input is invaluable
I've been a ham for about 5 years now, and I've seen their website many times. I've never ordered from them as they've never been particularly competitive on price or shipping. I think in today's mar
I've ordered many stainless fasteners through Albany Fasteners for my transmission line devices. Their service is second to none, and they ship quickly and reasonably. I tried very hard to beat their