John's Notes - CDE AR22 FYI - Just some notes I took while trying to get a used AR22 operating properly. They come free of charge but you get what you pay for - Hi! Whether they apply to all versions
I have used two of the Radio Shack 40? telescoping masts for about a year and a half ? one supporting a small Cushcraft 2-El. Tri-bander and rotor, the other supporting a rotary dipole and rotor, alo
Being on the amateurish side of amateur, I wonder if I can get a little help and advice regarding an antenna project I'm looking into. I am interested in putting up a fixed, directional antenna for 3
Another easy method is using a composite metal-cutting blade on a table saw, and setting the blade up to a third of the thickness of the rebar. Simply lay the rebar out and slowly feed/ roll the bar
It looks like a Rohn BX-series, and if so, it should have BX-series PN's inscribed on the various metal parts. There's an installation manual still out there on-line - that's where I got a copy. I ha
I wonder if I could get assistance on a wire antenna question? I am using insulators, will the looping through and back around to itself have the same effect on resonance than if it were a straight p
-- Message: 1 To: towertalk@contesting.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Ok, so I have a 50 foot mast pushed up to about 35 feet and guyed near the top. I'm thinking about adding a sec
There is also plenum-grade RG59/ RG6 coax, probably some of the other varieties are available too. I have encountered it when involved with cabling institutions such as healthcare facilities. It is n
3. Re: Beeswax (Alan NV8A) Inexpensive source of beeswax? Buy a toilet flange wax ring - make sure it is natural beeswax and not synthetic. Scrape it off into a can and you have lifetime of it for ab
1. Re: beam slippage (Pete Smith) If you have a controller that derives its position internally like many of mine, install a multi-pole switch in the drive wires going out to the rotor motor that bre
bankhein@frontiernet.net John K0JJH Mark: First, let me say I am no expert on these units, but I have some familiarity and have brought some back to life. It sounds like you have an AR-22 unit, not a