- 1. [TowerTalk] Concrete suggestions (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Wed Apr 16 16:57:15 2003
- Use your concrete supplier as a resource. Tell them the size of your hole, not what you calculate the amount of concrete required. Describe to them the layout of your project. Their business is to se
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-04/msg00269.html (10,696 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Welding aluminum with a MIG Millermatic 250.Anyoneusing the new wirepropellant systems kit for this welder? (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Fri Mar 14 20:22:48 2003
- Buyer beware! Aluminum welding is not easy. Many people who earn their living as welders cannot successfully weld aluminum. Bad welds are dangerous and unsafe. Just my $.02 worth! Bruce AA5BH --Origi
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-03/msg00186.html (8,746 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] TriEx Towers (Tashjian) (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Tue Feb 4 09:47:58 2003
- Robert, My LM-470 (70ft.) motorized crank-up TriEx tower has been in service for about 5 years. It's the nicest tower and the best tower investment I've made. When I called Karl earlier this winter t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00042.html (6,872 bytes)
- 4. [Towertalk] Knots for Guys (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:38:13 -0700
- Jerry, During a recent installation of an M2 10 meter 7 element monobander, my ham friend who was helping, began attaching the Phillystran from the mast bracket to the outer ends of the boom. We used
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00122.html (8,839 bytes)
- 5. [Towertalk] Aluminum Tubing (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:08:52 -0700
- Here's some sources for aluminum tubing: TW Metals, 303-340-1050, Marmon Keystone, 303-296-7473 (Marmon Keystone has warehouses in Houston and Kansas City), and Ryerson has many locations throughout
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00150.html (8,882 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] 6061 Tubing (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Sat Jan 25 13:56:39 2003
- Aluminum round tubing in the 6061 alloy is about the most common, most readily available round tubing and is typically stocked in up to 53 different sizes (a combination of outside diameters and wall
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00407.html (6,526 bytes)
- 7. [Towertalk] Failing Antennas (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:11:19 -0700
- I'd be willing to bet that all antenna manufacturers cut corners in all their processes in order to bring to market a product the consumer will probably purchase at a price they will probably pay. I
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-12/msg00198.html (7,871 bytes)
- 8. [Towertalk] 20 Year Old TriEx (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:09:01 -0700
- Before you make the guy an offer, get out of the mindset that the tower is worth anything at all, even to the point that the current owner ought to pay you to haul it off. Once you're in that frame o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-12/msg00743.html (7,360 bytes)
- 9. [Towertalk] Helium Balloon (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 10:11:55 -0700
- I doubt it's a harebrained idea, or if it is, you've got company. In January, 1989, I was part of the VK9ZM & VK9ZW dxpedition. While at our second stop, on Willis Island, we noticed that the fellows
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00018.html (8,144 bytes)
- 10. [Towertalk] Hy-Gain Rotators (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 07:40:39 -0700
- Roger, I'm having the same problem with my T2X right now. Whenever I turn the rotator within 50 degrees or so from either of the limits, the rotator will most likely not turn again for a few hours. O
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00066.html (7,787 bytes)
- 11. [Towertalk] T2X (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:55:43 -0700
- Roger, I'll be darned if the T2X owner's manual doesn't state, "The geometry is such that a mast of 2.062" O.D. pipe will be exactly centered. If the O.D. of your mast is less than this, you should s
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00076.html (6,712 bytes)
- 12. [Towertalk] T2X (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:49:59 -0700
- Roger, AARP members, and others, I just came out of my shop area where I sheared some shim material. One of the brake operators has formed a small bend at one end of each of the shims. It's kind of n
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00079.html (6,812 bytes)
- 13. [Towertalk] Tower Base (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:36:02 -0700
- The size of your concrete base may depend more on the skill, or lack of, of your backhoe operator than on what size base you wish to have. At my very remote QTH, the one and only backhoe operator for
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00671.html (7,038 bytes)
- 14. FW: [Towertalk] welding aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:09:10 -0600
- Welding aluminum antenna tubing would almost always be done with a TIG welder. Cleanliness is very important. We use a caustic etch process, performed by our local plating shop prior to welding alumi
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00410.html (10,661 bytes)
- 15. [Towertalk] Hy-Gain Tail Twister (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:31:20 -0600
- I've got a Tail Twister that will not turn when the wind is blowing. Has anyone else experienced this problem and come up with a workable solution? I've got an M2 10M7 10 meter monobander, 45 foot bo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00415.html (7,925 bytes)
- 16. [Towertalk] Mast Pinning (score: 1)
- Author: bruce@epocs.com (Bruce Miller)
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:05:34 -0600
- Bruce, While living in the Cayman Islands from 1986-1990, I had a 6 element Wilson tribander on a 55 foot crank up, unguyed, tubular style tower. I have always pinned the mast thru the rotator using
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00694.html (6,612 bytes)
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