Our court house has a copper metal roof (flat). Hustler Vertical antennas require an added $45. shunt coil (16 turns) to couple the low impedance to 52ohm coax. The Hustler vertical trap antennas are
HAHA, Hey, he makes a nice OCF at a reasonable price and guess what, he gives 10% discounts to Public Safety ACS groups. Yes, roll your eyes for a few more moments... a ham radio business that provid
For those of you worried about ever 1/10th of a db lost in the transmission line LMR 1700 was made for you! 0.15db /100ft below 30 MHz 0.63db/100ft 450MHz 330ft of Times Microwave Systems LMR 1700 wi
Great site for tracking the storm... http://www.stormpulse.com/ Stay Dry, Dave Wa3gin _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing
Hey Folks, I just received a call from a ham friend in Md. He has one banged up stepper and broken rotordue to a fallen tree... Anyone out there have success making a claim for antenna with State Far
OK Boys... thanks for all the inputs. 99% of respondents had a good experience. Some received checks within a week of the claim. Those most successful had an estimate to replace provided by a tower c
PPM's are great if you have $4,000 for one... Hi Jim - In defense of the PPM's - Have you ever opened one up and seen how they're built ? I would guess that any motor shop could rewind the "coils". T
Putting up a Hy-gain Explorer 14 with 40m extension. The antenna came with the Hy-Gain Voltage Balun (the little black plastic box). I'm tempted to remove the BN-1 (50ohm 1:1 voltage balun) from the
Hi folks, I'm putting together this little antenna but I'm finding the QK-710 installation instructions are not correct with regard to the beta-match. In the QK manual it refers to fig 8 of the Explo
Does anyone have a reference study of the QSO-KING 124ft end-fed wire antenna? We played with one this weekend and was surprised how well it heard and was heard on 40 and 60m. 73, Dave Wa3gin --Origi
OK, so how many folded monopoles are out there in AM radio land? 73, Dave wa3gin -- Original Message -- From: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac@arrl.net> To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Sent: Tuesday, November
Hi Folks, Now that the F2 layer is producing some good refraction I've got a question about the NVIS Jamaica antenna. A few years ago I built this Jamaica antenna, basically four 1/2 wave wires or tw
Hmmm, I think what I've read says it is in fact the "F2" layer that does the work Don. Please check out your reference. Also, any input to my specific question which has nothing to do with the layer
There is a 40 yr old HDBX-48 at wa3gin in as new condition... reason being the rotor is bolted to the concrete base and steel pipe runs up the middle of the tower through the trust bearing and up fiv
Anyone want to see pics of how we built this tower vertical with a gin pole, one section at a time just send me an email. They go up various ways but one can use a gin pole, not just a crane, but tha
They used to sell an accessory kit to add horizontal braces for the top section. I used an HBX-56 with a TH7 on top for over 15 years with no problems...The top section did have horizontal foot brace
He said 'self supporting' ... Here ya go -- de Mark, AA6DX (bought 2 so far!) http://cgi.ebay.com/12-Military-Fibreglass-Mast-Support-Poles-Ham-Radio-48_W 0QQitemZ160530378014QQcategoryZ4672QQcmdZVie
HAH, I friend of mine has an HDBX-48 that had all the rivets replaced with stainless steel bolts/nuts. The upgrade wasn't by choice, the previous owner had the tower re-galvanized and 'all' the alumi
This device works great... my good friend K3DPT came over with his this year and in minutes we had lines over the tops of the trees at 80ft. So much better than the other methods (bow/sling shot) whi