The picture did not come through !!! chet Who made a multiband base loaded vertical over 20 feet tall with a capacitor hat on top made back in the 1950's or early 1960's. It ran 80-10 or 160-10. I sa
Looks like your elevation rotor slipped. Here is what "cheap mast" pipe did to me when the eye of Charlie came over.. http://www.n4zkf.com/files/Tower.jpg I have since went to steel and it's done wel
Consider buying or borrowing from your club's copy of the K7LXS tribander report from the moderator of this reflector. This report covers just about all the tri banders except the stepIRs which were
Don that is a fantastic 40 m beam. I love mine. I have had mine up 5 years with no problems what so ever but......some one posted some simple mods that I would have made if I knew about them at the t
I had my 2 El Skylane quad on 20 feet of tower with a 5 foot mast on a flat roof. No interaction That I could detect. Worked great. 73 Chet N4FX I am looking at putting up a decent hf antenna on my 1
Grant, So how much did you pay for it?? I have one, and we have 5 more permanently mounted at W3PP. Without pix, its hard to Determine the condition. Google ab-577 masts. For me that brought up the s
DUMB and RETARDED note the lack of the stupid smiley face !!! chet Okay okay everybody take a deep breath and count to ten. Steppir isn't going anywhere. My earlier comment was facetious. Chris KF7P
I got that same advice from the same person, I only wish that I had received it 10 years earlier Than I did. 73 Chet N4FX --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk
Tommy has it right ! using a blacklight will show you any areas were purplish dye was coated too thinly to be effective Chet N4FX Well of course not!! To work at UHF, you would have to tint it with s
If I remember correctly, K3LR has converted all of his to moxons. Check his web site as I think the specs and details are on his site. 73 Chet N4fX I just read an article on the W6NL conversion of a
A lightning HIT !!!!! Chet N4FX -- Original Message -- From: "Mickey Baker" <fishflorida@gmail.com> To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com> Cc: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com> Sent: Wednesday,
In the fighting u s coast guard they were called safety rails. Not sure if that's what the manufacturer called them Chet N4FX --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tower
F-12 antennas are pre drilled at the factory. The instructions with mine say if there are 3 holes, use 3 rivets and insert all 3 rivets in the holes and don't pull any of them until you know all 3 li
I have 3 f-12 rivited antennas here. Never had a failure. This does not appear to be a huge problem nationwide. The owner of this antenna says he only used one rivet in that element.I believe him. Ei
Yesssssssss! Assuming one rivet is strong enough to do the job the fact that they use three would indicate to me that not even the manufacturer doesn't trusts them. Perhaps a second for backup, but t
I have a C31XR at 90 feet and a 2 el XM-240 at 75 feet. HFTA says the best height for me into EU on 40M is 70-75 feet. That's the reason for putting the 40M beam below the tribander. F-12 recommended
Buy the rebuild kit which comes with all new hardware, trap covers, clamps etc. I think the kit was 39 bux when I purchased it about 6 years ago. I used scotch brite to buff up the elements but if I
I don't think you will be any louder but At least one consequence of tx's on the same freq is a much wider bandwidth. "Hypothetically" It would likely keep the other contesters from as cq'ing close t
Hi Jon, The brake clanking is music to my ears, it's a great aid in trouble shooting rotor problems. I recommend Raising the antenna to 90 or 100 feet to lessen the noise. Sounds to me like your roto
Scotty, The post that appears immediately below, is one sent by K3LR a few years back. This should work for you too. I have to believe it would be a lot better than a low dipole. I am sure that the K