- 1. [TowerTalk] Temporary mast/tower --Rohn pushup mast? (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:35:04 -0500
- Will a 30' Rohn pushup mast handle a 2 meter beam and small rotator? Beam is a CC17B2, 31 feet long, 15 lb., 3.9 square feet wind area. What if I reduce it's height: 25' ?? The location is very windy
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-11/msg00497.html (7,544 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] RE: Antenna Separation (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:10:24 -0400
- One way to approach this is to look at what successful VHF contest rovers do. They place the antennas very close to each other sometimes inches. www.qsl.net/n9rla <http://www.qsl.net/n9rla> has pict
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00362.html (7,721 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] Mounting rotor on 25ag2 top section? (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:16:00 -0500
- I have a Rohn 25ag2 top section (used); this is the tapered top section that has a single vertical tube at the top. It appears that the way the rotor and mast were mounted was rotor on a plate inside
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-12/msg00052.html (8,457 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] 2" Boom Clamp (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:33:10 -0400
- Jake, K9WN, was looking for a boom splice. I think this is it (mast clamp). http://www.penninger.com/prod01.htm W9IIX has something similar: MC-1 mast coupler: http://w9iix.com/ii00012.htm (not recom
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2005-10/msg00500.html (7,365 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] Advances in Antennas [was Building Antennas] (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:13:14 -0500
- From the perspective of one who has come back into the VHF game after almost 40 years off the air: Many VHF yagis of old turned out to have much less gain than people thought. Computer modeling has m
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00298.html (8,659 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TowerTalk] screw anchors (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:36:08 -0500
- In winter in MA (wind chill -30 last night), my screw anchors will hold any tower up till the steel fails. When the ground thaws in the spring it becomes much less secure. The screw anchor failure I
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00328.html (7,368 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Advances in Antennas [was Building Antennas] (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:00:16 -0500
- What has been said so far doesn't give much help to Bob, AD5VJ, in actually designing his antenna. First, if anything I say is contradicted by GM3SEK, L. Cebik, or many others, listen to them! :) Sec
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00333.html (8,714 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TowerTalk] Screw Anchors (soil conditions) (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:39:45 -0500
- The effectiveness of screw anchors depends on soil conditions, which I know little about. But there are people who do. I've seen maps of soil conditions of my hometown; ask at your town hall, county
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00368.html (7,136 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] what winch to use for a 40 ft tower (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:02:39 -0500
- Harbor Freight: * Load capacity: 2000 lbs. * Cable:3/16'' x25 ft. * Gearbox: worm gear * Shipping weight: 11.6 lbs. ITEM 5798-1VGA $29.99 I have one for the same application but haven't put anything
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00526.html (7,726 bytes)
- 10. [TowerTalk] Tower Restrictions (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:50:03 -0400
- Hi Jose, It looks to me like you can go at least to 65'. If it is reasonable to go higher than that on your lot, you may be able to get a variance. "Seems the city has a 35 foot limit on towers and a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-08/msg00557.html (9,692 bytes)
- 11. [TowerTalk] Vertical in the swamp (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:18:40 -0400
- Is swamp water conductive? Fresh water swamps have a lot of stuff suspended or dissolved in the water. The conductivity might be much higher than pure water. A quick google: Great Salt Lake = 158,000
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-05/msg00248.html (8,760 bytes)
- 12. [TowerTalk] BIG 6m antenna (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:58:14 -0400
- There are interesting plans for low noise VHF yagis by YU7EF at http://www.yu7ef.com/ In particular there is a 15.5 meter long 10 element 6m yagi: http://www.yu7ef.com/ef0610.htm (electrical dimensio
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-05/msg00564.html (7,565 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TowerTalk] Shortening an M2 6M5-X (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:02:11 -0400
- I've just done something similar with my M2 6m7jhv 7 element 6 meter beam. For a temporary setup I'm using just 4 of the 7 elements. The SWR was terrible and I had given up until I remembered that my
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00115.html (7,291 bytes)
- 14. [TowerTalk] Pins for Yaesu rotor box connector. (score: 1)
- Author: "Carrington, Walter" <Walter.Carrington@umassmed.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:20:19 -0400
- Trying to put the cable for my Yaesu G800SA rotor together, I find that I have lost 2 of the pins for the plug that goes into the rotor control box. Does anybody know if these pins are some standard
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00274.html (6,976 bytes)
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