Greetings to all, I'm planning a new QTH and antenna (MonstIR, 2mtr, 70 cm) and had planned on utilizing the M2 OR-2800 rotator. Recently I've heard, through the "grapevine" that the OR-2800 has had
Greetings to all TT members, Back again with more questions, rather obvious but would welcome opinions from all of you with real life experience. Maybe I'm working on some analysis-paralysis, but sin
Greetings to all Tower Talkers, A very wise man and fellow TT (K7LXC) suggested I post my challenge here to the group...maybe somebody will have a new idea that I've not explored. Last week we put up
Aloha to all, Just got back from trying the splice at the base of the tower....works fine. As I was preparing the splice I noted how robust the insulation seems, i.e. doubt there could be any damage
Ok, Friday I received a new 440 foot control cable from Mike at SteppIR. In addition he prepared a 6 volt DC battery pack to piggy-back on the 33 volt power supply for the controller. Neither worked.
Hi John, The cable is coiled up in the shipping box, sitting at the base of the tower. Unfortunately I'm not able to run it parallel to the original cable since I've taken 10 feet of the connector si
(Doing engineering analysis from where I am sitting is very difficult, and you are down to that point. The part substitution method hasn't worked and there is only one part left that hasn't been subs
Greetings to all Tower Talkers, I wanted to provide an update to all that offered lot's of very thoughtful suggestions with the problems I was having with my new 4 Element. Though this is a SteppIR s
Gentlemen, I would like to address a couple of posts.... The antenna had been tested on the ground. I'm certainly not an engineer, but I was systematic in what analysis I could perform. The problem d
Greetings, Though the idea of a rotator loop is pretty simple, I'm looking for any novel approaches others have had. Over the past winter, my coax has been disrupted twice up at the rotator loop. In
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