Where is the best place (price) to find 1/2" - 3/4" copper braid for extensive grounding (250 feet or so)? Appreciate any help/advice. Warren, W5KKW; WarrenWolff@aol.com _____________________________
Hi to list: I appreciate all of your responses and candidate solutions to my question for grounding. My primary reason for this ground was to maximize ground exposure at minimum effort. I was thinkin
We had the electric fence problem at NMSU in the late 1950's. About one week of dropping a shorting wire (across the machine terminals) precipitated the ag majors to find a better solution. That thin
Greetings!! I am a year off from building my new home at Lake Havasu City. I expect to have a 70 foot crank up and a 55 foot crank up. In designing the layout, I have come to the "bulkhead" for feedl
Greetings, First of all, thanks to the many who have commented on SPG's and associated grounding philosophy.? Lots of help garnered. NEW: ???? I know not where else to ask this question; so here goes
I tried to post this earlier, but believe it got messed up. First of all, thanks to the many who have commented on SPG's and associated grounding philosophy. Lots of help and ideas garnered. New Item
It seems to me that someone on this list made some negative comments about drilling holes for ground rods. I will be installing a gaggle of ground rods at my Lake Havasu City location. I certainly wa
What does that mean? I must be too too slow. Are you saying that all communities have signed on to Copper Sulfate intrusion? I fully planned to have a hefty auger dig the holes for my ground rods. My
I was Program Manager for a State-Wide secure mobile telephone system in Kuwait. Our ruggedized UHF antennas were not as rugged as the famous manufacturer (remains unamed) advertised. Several of the
ham-law@altlaw.com This site and similar ones are listed as no longer existent. Warren; W5KKW _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Tower
I will be building a home at Lake Havasu City AZ in the near future. I have absolutely no experience above 10 meters; so I need, first, some theoretical advice, then some from the locals. Should I pi
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In 1963, some type of military exercise deposited a sergeant in my Hickam AFB MARS station with a Technical Materiel Corp suitcase rig. I am not sure of all of the specs, but we strapped up a termina
Greetings: Does anyone on here have a stack of yagis OB4-40 and OB16-3? Would appreciate any comments re: performance with only 10 feet between the arrays. Warren; W5KKW _____________________________
All of this banter reminds me of an old study we USAF guys paid for at Syracuse University years ago. It was about a principle called the "Chu Limit". Mathematically, we reverified that within a conf
A good many years back, the ARRL Antenna Book had a detailed article on a helically wound 40 m two element yagi. I have heard of folks using it and handling the inherently narrow bandwidth with a tun
I have seen some loooong telephone poles spliced. It was in 1962 outside Walker AFB NM (long gone). On a hilltop north east of town near the VOR was an HF helix like you have never seen. It was tuned
It seems to me that the "energy" stored in a T-storm cloud is 100% D. C. Do we "hear" anything at RF if there is no strike? Not to my knowledge; if there were some minor emission of RF energy, it wou
Now, take it easy on me; I don't even have a tower up yet. I was in NM last week when we watched over 2 hours of fantastic lightning flashes, many striking the ground. We say NONE strike any of the 3
Folks: There are some of us at the age of 70 who have strung many a wire between trees or other even more precarious perches in out earlier years. Now comes the time to reward our patience and thrift