No - you are exactly correct! I did not follow the Rohn instructions and used the CB2 foundation. My pier pin base plate is offset as you say, but with the larger 36" x 36" CB2 foundation, the base p
Wow Rick! That is really amazing? You ever think of getting a decent receiver? For the past 59 years I have used a 'tuner' and wires, but alas, using wire antennas and I've only got 327 countries con
Gosh - I think most reflector hams have no sense of humor whatever! Why does everyone have to take everything so damn serious? Smile once in a while! Of course yagi's are better than wires but in a h
Dan, This past August I put 27 of the 8 ft 5/8" copper clad steel rods into the very hard south Georgia red clay using a rented 'ground rod hammer' The first hammer I got from the rental store pounde
Yes - I think I recall what you are talking about, but I think it was a brick layer who was working up high and he was trying to describe to his insurance company everything that went wrong as he was
Worthless! Tom - W4BQF Band plans. http://www.bandplans.com/index.php?band=All<http://www.bandplans.com/index.p hp?band=All> If you've got it ok, if not here ya go. Lee KE4VYN _______________________
I am still curious how you are going to keep the static build-up discharged? Tom - W4BQF I'm still curious why anyone would want to put up a loop with five miles of wire in it. What was the intended
This was published yesterday: " Mike Koss, W9SU, became a silent key late last night or early this morning. Members of the be other I gather that at this point, no one knows what will become of the c
I don't own one of these vertical's, but years ago a friend of mine got an AV640. The only problem he had with it (right out of the box) was 'strange' SWR readings across the bands. The problem on hi
Sorry - but I just have to ask this: Please explain how the other side of the 'dirty' insulator finds ground to discharge the static build up? Tom - W4BQF I suspect that in a lot of cases, nobody obs
Dan, Check with your local rental store. I rented a hammer drill to pound in 35 of my 5/8" ground rods. In this south Georgia clay, it took a 25lb hammer to get them all the way into the ground! They
I must have missed something? The cost of the 9H50 is ~$130, however if you look at the shipping information, it says it will only ship by truck! Shipping cost by truck to my QTH in south Georgia is
I think it is silly to listen to what 'some xxx user' says! How the heck do they know? The only thing they did was fork over the bucks to buy the antenna. Listen to what your manufacturer tells you t
Scott, I have the OB40-2 and the OB16-3, respectively being a 2-el 40m and a 16 element tri-bander. They have only been up a year but in my opinion, they are very good in both performance and mechani
No doubt the A20 headset is very good, but several reasons (to me) for not purchasing this headset. First and foremost, at $1095, this is certainly not a reasonable ham purchase for contesting. And s
I don't know for sure but when I was purchasing my 45G last summer, I am pretty sure the tower itself was manufactured by Rohn. However, be very careful when buying other parts for the tower. Rohn tu
I think I really don't understand this? How can a loop antenna be unbalanced? What about the length of the feed line in the shack being a voltage max? Why isn't it true that all he would have to do i
I agree! Both here in south Georgia and in Virginia I had 80m dipoles made with copperweld wire. In both QTH's I had storms that felled the trees holding up one end of the antenna wire, come down dur
As the saying goes: YMMV...! I have Yagi's for 40 through 6m, but for 80m I use 4" spaced OWL feeding the copperweld about 600 feet away from my house. The spacers for the OWL is made from plastic co
When I was living in Virginia, this worked excellent for me: At your local hardware store, find a bathroom tile hole cutter the size that your feed-thru insulators requires. Lay your double pane wind