Mark: Have you e-mailed Roger at Tennadyne tennadyne@tennadyne.com. He or Chuck KA1PM (the former owner) <chazzo@ktc.com> can give you some really good advice. I've talked to several hams who have th
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Fellow Tower Talk members: Years ago my family owned a company with plants in Fort Worth TX, Tulsa OK and Ogden UT (Riverside Industries) that made huge steel high voltage electrical transmission tow
Gordon: Unincorporated areas in most Texas counties have little regulation as far a zoning except for massage parlors, X-rated video stores, and strip joints. Texas still believes mostly that a perso
When I put in the 4x4x6 base for my TriEx WT51 crank up back in 1993 I used commerically obtained "six sack" concrete ReadyMix which was supposedly the same specs for interstate highway overpasses. T
Fellow Tower Talk veterans: A friend of mine in South Africa wants to buy a 2.25" ferrite core to build a balun to match 22 ohms to 50 ohms which is described in "Building and Using Baluns and Ununs"
Jim: Thanks for the information. I'm forwarding it on to Daniel, ZS6JR in SA and I'll let him tell me what he wants me to get here in the states and ship to him in SA. Daniel repairs Collins gear in
Wayne: I know Tashjian Towers, the successor to Tri-Ex has them. I got one from Carl. Tom, WW5L _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTa
Fellow Tower Talk members: Thanks to all of you for your replies to my inquiry posted from Daniel ZS6JR about building a 22 ohm to 50 ohms ferrite balun asmd the p[roper core material to use.. I forw
I also use Scotch 88, but usually coat it with Scotchcote, which supposedly forms such a vapor and water barrier that you could lay the cable and connector underwater and not have water penetration.
Has there been an environmental impact statement done to insure that the fake owl does not impact any native species of real owls? Watch out for the tree, er tower, huggers if not. Also you need to w
Allen: I use it with my Tri-Ex W51 crank up tower with no problems. I use black cable ties to bind it along with some RG213 and the control cable for by Ham IV rotor. The LMR400 feeds a Cushcraft AR2
Scott: I have Dish Network and the dish on the side of my house and my log periodic is 50 ft in the air on a crank up tower. Never had a problem with the TV, nor have any of my neighbors who are on s
Dan: Yes, I tried lowering my 50 foot crank up once in a heft wind and nothing happened, execpt the cable went limp. I just tightened the cable back up and said to heck with lowering it. Tower and be
Another way is to use a fence post driver available at many Lowe's and Home Depot store or nearly any farm and ranch supply store. It is a 2-3 foot piece of pipe sealed on one end with handles on the
Things such as towers don't have to be above ground for folks to get upset. Be sure and read the fifth paragraph. This is repostred and quoted from the NY Times' Sunday edition purely for any possibl
Guess I'm in trouble. A male and female Cardinal each spring use my 50 foot crankup for a clandestine meeting place on one of the elements of the Tennadyne T-10, then fly off someplace together. With
We had so many birds getting trapped in our chimney that we finally had to have a screen wire cap put on and a chimney sweep come in and clean the thing out, even though the fireplace has never been
A couple years ago a fellow ham and I ordered new bases for our WT51 crank up towers from Tashijian Towers in CA. A fellow ham who is also a long haul truck driver had a load going to CA anyway and h
Frank: I've got a T10 made by Chuck KA1PM the previous owner of Tennadyne 5 years ago and it has dual square booms. You might e-mail Roger, the current owner at tennadyne@tennadyne.com and he can pro