Son-of-a-gun...what's this hobby coming to? I'll bet you occasionally give up a frequency, too. Where's your required self-centeredness? Your ego? Next thing we know, you'll be inviting your neighbor
Steve wrote (referring to breaking the 'Prime Directive'): Except when a counter-intuitive "improvement" obeys the 'Law of Unintended Consequences'. For example, adding guy wires to a self-supporting
Jerry, Self-supporting towers are designed to withstand bending loads (from wind), but their capacity to withstand vertical loads is based on just the weight of the tower itself and the antennas it s
OK, guys. As the instigator of this thread (which has been interesting, to say the least) I'd like to provide an opportunity to review my original post, submitted as a challenge (tongue-in-cheek) to
Andy, It really depends on your fitness level. At age 58 (or so), and in the 135th percentile on a treadmill test, I took me about three days, but that included lots of rest stops, distracting phone
We had a dog years ago who would bark vehemently at a particular spot on our fence every time he passed by! Having witnessed the original incident, we understood...and sympathized! The fence charger
Erik, These rotors use DC to actuate the drive motor. The drive voltage and position indication signal (also DC) both pass through the rotor cable and all its connectors. Any leakage current from the
Wait a minute!!! This application is NOT like a footing! I hope someone with some credentials will chime in here and keep us from doing some dumb stuff! Footings do not have to withstand overturning
That's interesting and gets us a little closer to the solution, provided the rebar cage design is effective for tensile loads. If the tower manufacturer has done this correctly, and the rebar is plac
Jon (and list), I agree, a guyed tower would be a totally different story, but I checked the original post, and it was for a self-supporting tower, thus the long discussion. A clip of the original qu
TowerTalkers, Here's A similar 'Gotcha'. Fortunately I caught IT before it got ME: I was recently replacing the large vertical on our local DX cluster node antenna (110'), and doing a little maintena
Dave, Check out the cost of converting to underground service. I had the same decision to make several years ago and found that the I could rent a Ditch Witch and dig the trench myself, thus greatly
Dave, FWIW, my G-800 made the same sound before I mounted it. I can't remember the azimuth for sure, but I think it was more centered in the range. I called Yaesu, and they seemed unconcerned, so I m
One of my favorite zingers: "If You Can't Be Accurate, Be Precise!" (not true in your case, of course <grin>) Chuck, N4NM ("Rigor Gained is Clarity Lost"....I'll take credit for that one) http://www.
Peter, I'll leave the theoretical discussions to you, Tom, and others; my comments address only claims, performance, customer satisfaction, and implied ethics (or lack thereof). See below: -- Origina
Hygain tower bases use welded rebar. The 1/4" thick steel tabs thru which the tower mounting bolts connect to the matching tabs on the tower are thoroughly welded to three rebar legs tied together wi
-- Original Message -- Nope. Yaesu uses DC motors and simply reverses polarity to change direction. The voltage is varied to allow speed adjustment and the controller on the preset models drops the v