- 41. [TowerTalk] "test" messages (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott--K7BG)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 23:07:37 -0700
- If you must do this please disguise it as a legitimate tower related question, such as: o How high is UP? o What direction should I point my beam to work Europe-short path? o Which end of the coax c
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00249.html (7,984 bytes)
- 42. [TowerTalk] RCS4 switchbox (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott--K7BG)
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:49:09 -0700
- Thanks to all for your input regarding the RCS-4. No I don't have a lightening arrestor in the line as many questioned, but it's good to know for future reference that this will cause a problem. I ha
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00024.html (7,495 bytes)
- 43. [TowerTalk] RCS-4 remote switch (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott--K7BG)
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:22:58 -0700
- Sorry for the late posting of the conclusions I reached regarding my inquiry of about a month ago. My RCS-4 wasn't switching if you recall. Well it turns out that the Dentron xmatch I was using on th
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00731.html (7,383 bytes)
- 44. [TowerTalk] RCS4 switchbox (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott--K7BG)
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:58:09 -0700
- Dug out the RCS-4 and mounted it on the tower yesterday to play with some wire configs. Wouldn't you know it, it wouldn't work. Brought it back into the house and it DOES work. Guess I have too much
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00000.html (6,938 bytes)
- 45. [TowerTalk] jokes and religous quotes (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott--K7BG)
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 20:14:22 -0700
- I agree. To find out about towers, read Proverbs 18:10. 73, Matt -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-R
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00150.html (7,344 bytes)
- 46. [TowerTalk] HF beam against the wind. (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott--K7BG)
- Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 19:57:45 -0700
- Great Falls, Montana has the highest daily average windspeed of any city over 50,000 pop. in the lower 48 (Book of lists a few years ago). We get frequent 60-70 mile an hour wind gusts. To clean alu
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00190.html (10,538 bytes)
- 47. [TowerTalk] feeding a 4-sloper array (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott)
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 20:31:02 -0600
- I am so impressed with the single 80m sloper I put up last year I have decided to put up 3 more and have a "steerable" array. The ARRL antenna book says to feed the antennas from the switchbox with "
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-10/msg00069.html (7,865 bytes)
- 48. [TowerTalk] Tower Accident (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (Matt Trott)
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:17:52 -0700
- The news blip I heard said they were reguting the tower (3000') and she came down with a couple men aboard. Matt--K7BG -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertal
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-10/msg00777.html (7,412 bytes)
- 49. [TowerTalk] turnbuckle strength (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (K7BG Matt Trott)
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:00:53 -0600 (MDT)
- Yo, thanks for the info. I assume this goes for other hardware as well. I've been staying awake nights ever since I put up my tower last year pondering the strength of the shackles that attach the p
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00235.html (7,962 bytes)
- 50. [TowerTalk] Guywire hardware questions (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (K7BG Matt Trott)
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 08:17:41 -0700 (MST)
- Good question. Has anyone sidemounted a KT34XA on a IIX or similar sidemount? I acquired 3/4 of a KT34XA and was considering rebuilding it and sidemounting it at 45' on 45G. Or is a ringrotor the on
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-03/msg00547.html (7,616 bytes)
- 51. Crank-up mishap (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (K7BG Matt Trott)
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 09:37:00 -0700 (MST)
- I thought I'd post this of yesterday evening in hopes it might help others who "get in a hurry." I was monitoring one of our local repeaters yesterday afternoon when a scratchy signal came on. It was
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-02/msg00148.html (8,524 bytes)
- 52. Raising (Hell) Beams (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (K7BG Matt Trott)
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:00:06 -0700 (MST)
- I used 1/4 EHS for the tram line to pull my 402CD up to 83 feet. I ran the tram "way" out from the tower and ran it around a 6 inch wooden fence post. I pulled like blazes on the "dead end" (the end
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-01/msg00247.html (8,985 bytes)
- 53. Hy gain antenna-tork bal? (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (K7BG Matt Trott)
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:17:35 -0700 (MST)
- Are any of you guys torque balancing the elements after converting? Maybe that's the one down side if there is one. The elements on the 105bas were balanced about the mast. With the CAS mods I belei
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1996-12/msg00241.html (7,542 bytes)
- 54. Anchor Rod Failure (score: 1)
- Author: aa7bg@3rivers.net (K7BG Matt Trott)
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:32:48 -0700 (MST)
- With a 106 mph breeze blowing I dare say the tension was a tad greater than 670#. Matt--K7BG -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administr
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1996-12/msg00246.html (7,644 bytes)
- 55. RE: [TowerTalk] BBC report on bird kills at towers (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt" <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:59:20 -0600
- Well, what I want to know is just what are G.W. Bush and the republicans going to do about this?? What are they going to do to keep these bugs away from tower lights. And...even more important, what
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00751.html (10,120 bytes)
- 56. [TowerTalk] old style phillystran (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt" <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:39:19 -0600
- Greetings from smoke laden Montana. I have several terminated lengths of old style philly. One of them, at one end, has been "stressed" a little and is showing the kevlar strands because the black ja
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00770.html (7,718 bytes)
- 57. [TowerTalk] 45G short base (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt" <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 21:58:47 -0600
- I have a 45G short base (5 foot) located near Great Falls, MT that I would like to sell/trade. I am in need of a 25G base plate and pier pin and/or a flat top plate 25G tower section. Whatcha got wit
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-10/msg00085.html (6,721 bytes)
- 58. RE: [TowerTalk] ultraviolet conditions (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt" <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:27:40 -0700
- So what this has to do with towers is that the taller your tower, the higher the chance you will get skin cancer if you spend a lot of time up there knocking down wasp nests, etc. Actually, I thought
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-11/msg00006.html (9,033 bytes)
- 59. RE: [TowerTalk] Tram (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt" <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:30:45 -0700
- Doesn't neccessarily take two people. I trammed up a 2 ele 40 to 85 feet then pulled the mast up another ten feet and then trammed up a 5 ele 20 (only 34' boom). Not monster antennas, but did the who
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00587.html (8,756 bytes)
- 60. RE: [TowerTalk] Tram (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt" <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:06:34 -0700
- No, we used the pickup truck to pull up a 20 foot chromolloy mast. I built the mast into the first two sections of Rohn 45. I then ginned the mast up to the top inside the tower and snaked it through
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00589.html (12,395 bytes)
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