My family and I recently moved to a wonderful house in beautiful Glade Park CO (on the other side of Colorado National Monument from Grand Junction. The house itself is an ultra-energy efficient Eart
Thanks for all for the great advice and info! TowerTalk really proving its value to me here. I am filing out FAA form 7460-1 online right now. It asks for the exact altitude ASL of my tower(s). How d
I have the Commander Compass (paid version 3.3.6) app on my iPhone 4S. It's an impressive looking app - says its "Mil Spec" - however I am wonder how accurate it is. The manual says "The precision of
To Jon W4ABC -- Actually I don't think they are using my house to line up the runway. My house is closer to perpendicular to the runway than inline. I saw the same plane land today (didn't look in ti
I'm curious about the viability of putting a remote video camera on my new 70-foot AN Wireless tower, the first tower I am installing at my new QTH in Western Colorado. The Tower base will be about 1
Billy AA4NU is correct. The company in question is indeed InnovAntennas. Also available factory direct - contact my colleague Chip K7JA at InnovAntennas America for product questions and orders: chip
I have some 1-5/8 inch Andrew Hardline (LDF7-50A) which has been stored outside in New England for 5 years - is it still good and if not can it be rehabilitated? I didn't expect to leave it outside t
There was a posting regarding Force 12 telephone number here recently. The Force 12 phone number changed to the same number as InnovAntennas last November - (888) 998-8541. We kept forwarding on the
Looking for info on 75 or 70 twinlead or ladderline cable. Does such a thing exist? Google search did not come up with anything but maybe I'm overlooking something Tnx BIll AA7XT ____________________
Many of you will know InnovAntennas purchased Force 12 last November and moved the factory from Texas to Colorado. Production was essentially shut down for two months during the transition. We are sh
Can't say I love Windows 8.1 but that's what came my new PC. I loaded HFTA from the ARRL Antenna Book CD-ROM along with the other programs on that disc. I am able to open HFTA, enter data and display
The trick was (a) find the most ARRL Antenna Book 22nd Edition CD-ROM and (b) create a root level directory... C:\HFTA ...in which to install HFTA from the CD-ROM (don't use the default install direc
I recently acquired a 1971 vintage Sky Needle TM-370. Thanks to Hector, XE2K / AD6D for finding it and supervising its shipping to Colorado. I want to install it at my home QTH this fall but first it
The 5BA is siill available from Force 12. We are supporting as a 'legacy model' due to its enduring popularity even though we have many high performance new models that cover the same bands. Sorry fo
Force 12 will continue to manufacture and sell 'Legacy' antennas (original XR-5, 5BA, et al) for as long as the stock of the old Force 12 rectangular brackets holds out. These are on a special order
As I sweat through digging (with a trencher and by hand) trenches putting Commscope AVA7-50 hardline (eBay deal) and control lines from the shack to a couple of towers here I mused on whether or not
At Force 12 we supply stainless hose clamps to secure adjustable element tips but also drill 1/8" holes in the larger tube (typically 0.500" OD) and supply rivets so users can rivet their tips in pla
We (Justin G0KSC and myself) acquired Force 12 in November 2013 and have a pretty good archive of manuals and other F12 documents in PDF and other digital formats, about 40-GB worth. Hardly a day goe
FYI - Force 12 went to six rivets per element joint, up from three, two years ago at the advice of "Mr YagiStress" Kurt K7NV. Three are on each side of the tubes providing a nice secure and stable gr
I just installed HFTA 1.04 on a new PC and am getting YTW Run-time error 91 when selecting Compute! button I've had this issue before but cannot recall how I resolved it. I Googled but didn't find a