Please back up your statement with references. I live in Canada. Can you point me to a Canadian regulation that says it is an illegal act to free climb in a commercial and a non commercial situation.
You are receiving this privately because it will not be posted to towertalk. It's so silly that it is sad. List moderator, list owner, despot, dictator, Steve, K7LXC, likes to play god from time to t
Jim, thank you for this. When I was still working long before retirement I took a safety course which stressed that safety and production were equal. If safety was first then there would be little pr
Thank you for your common sense view. Doug "Think of all the ways you can hurt yourself laughing." --Original Message-- my point is that a fixation on height having a correlation to risk is wrong. Th
IMO the over rotation system (limit switches, etc.) on this rotor has little benefit with the stock controller. I remove it from my HDR-300s. One benefit in removing the over rotation is that the ran
This article will explain the Ufer ground and the causes of concrete cracking (i.e. poor implementation) http://www.comm-omni.com/polyweb/ufertower.htm Doug __________________________________________
Anyone have experience with RG-213 sold by Electrocables in Trenton, Ontario? Doug _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing li
Coax seal is good to seal the air out of any cartridge tip. Better than anything you can buy. Just take a hunk and mold it over the tip. Can be reused over and over. Doug ____________________________
So Roger how did you catch them? I used to wait until dark and then climb to their roosting in the barn and grab them by their legs. Doug I'll run the race and I will never be the same again. _______
My observations of this rotor: 1. That's a pretty small mast clamp. You would need a different mast clamp for every different OD mast. 2. How is the flange attached to the out put shaft? That could b
You can catch the loop by installing an X made out of dowel or some other material directly underneath the top plate and extending say 1 foot beyond the top plate and secured with cable ties or other
The first thing you do with a HDR-300 is remove the stops. If it rotates past the stops, things break. By pass or remove the stops. The HDR-300 does not have a wedge break like the Ham or Tailtwister
My friend your facts of life seem to apply to someone who is over weight and out of shape. This summer I rebuilt three towers from the ground up and reinstalled eight antennas. I must have climbed th
Any suggestions on how to keep deer out of the yard and away from the antennas? Pesky animals are always snagging my top loading lines and bending the vertical. Doug "Think of all the ways you can hu
Spray the gear part with WD-40 or Liquid Wrench before tightening. Align the gear part over the slot. Doug "Think of all the ways you can hurt yourself laughing." --Original Message-- I'm putting tog
Dave, My experience agrees with yours in that grounding a tower through the concrete base is a non issue. All my 5 towers are grounded below the 4 ft cube concrete base for over 35 years with no visi
I don't think he is joking, but real experience proves otherwise. Grounding a tower through the concrete base is a non issue. All my 5 towers are grounded below the 4 ft cube concrete base for over 3
A M2 balun secured to the boom with two gear clamps works perfectly. Doug "Think of all the ways you can hurt yourself laughing." --Original Message-- BA-4000 someday in the dead of winter hi hi... w
Yes I have seem frequent times when my 50 ft high 10m yagi outperforms my 110 ft yagi. Usually the higher yagi is the best, but there are times when the signal is barley audible on the higher yagi, t
I 'dig' all my screw anchors in. Dig a hole to the proper depth, slit the tower side of the hole for the shaft, and place the 'screw' against undisturbed soil, backfill. Doug "Think of all the ways y