Hi Bill, Easily Fixed. 1. Take a 2 inch wide vertical piece of wood about 4 feet long and hammer it in the ground about 1 foot. 2. get a horizontal piece of wood about 4 inches wide and two feet long
Hi Gang, I didn't take the comments so far anyway as attacks on the STEPPIR or the C31. I have the C31XR at 90 feet. In March I apparently had the boom to boom to element clamp come loose on mine whi
but what about reticular iterations ?? Chet -- Original Message -- From: "Dick Green" <wc1m@msn.com> To: "'Tom Rauch'" <w8ji@contesting.com>; <KF6PYF@blaze1024.com> Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com> Sen
Call them on the phone, receptionist is Jill, They sell the BA-1 balun which I use on all 3 of my F-12 antennas 73 _______________________________________________ ____________________________________
the steppIR is totally ineffective on 160 !! I don't even let it on my HD. I delete at the server, using MailWasher Pro. 73, Carl VE9OV If you want to work the elusive one, it's SteppIR all the way!
Yo Joey, I don't know that I see a lot of mistakes or things that I haven't already done? . Could you expand a bit on just what were the mistakes you made? I guess it would have been nice to know the
You guys are missing the point. No one really said the PRO-57A is a bad antenna, Its just that there are so many computer designed optimum spaced tri-banders that are better. Mosely spare parts price
Hi Doug, I don't think Jim owes an apology. Doug, you have over looked the fact that the Mosely was not "bashed", The report simply showed that there were a lot of other tribanders that would be a be
Either buy a couple of dozen NOW for investment or look into buying ground rod futures. chet -- Original Message -- From: "Alan NV8A" <nv8a@att.net> To: "towertalk reflector" <towertalk@contesting.co
Rusty, Don't see a ham call listed or your location so I have no idea what your soil conditions might be. N4BAA and I dug 1 tower hole here and 2 at his place. in November. We rented an auger on a sm
How did you make that 25G at 96 feet to be .........self supporting?? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@
Looks like youse guys will be able to conduct some right powerful and lengthy rag chewz !! 73 N4FX -- Original Message -- From: "jeremy-ca" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com> To: "Christopher J Galbraith" <cgalbra
When I was at K4CG the one we had was used as HF back up comms for the Air Force 1 and the Commandant of the the Coast Guards aircraft. It was also used for search and rescue communications on NON mi
I got a call from F-12 to tell me my new WARC-7 had been shipped. It arrived 5 days later. Conventional wisdom from several reflectors is that sending them an E-mail is a waste of time. I have called
Barry, There would only be one reason to lash ladders together like that...........I have looked but I can not find the antenna you must have been working on !! ______________________________________
Rick, OK, I'll bite. How well does it work I used a rhombic up at KL7AIZ that was 500 feet per leg, terminated at the far end.. That one loaded on all bands and was dynamite. A rhombic at this QTH is
I have a 20 foot piece of 2.5" outside diameter thick wall aluminum pipe that I plan to use as a gin pole. My tower is AB-105 and I have special brackets already made for the AB-105 that can be tight
Hi Art First of all,, forget the vertical and I don't care what brand of vertical it is. If it were me, I'd pay the 2500 bucks and go with a free standing tower. In the end, that would be another rea
Radials under the K9AY loop??? Possibly I did something wrong here but.............I put up the W2UP rotatable loop which is a single loop I turned with a rotator but essentially the same principle a