Author: "Diane and Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:09:46 -0500
Hi Guys, I used standard-issue-variety black pvc pipe that allowed me to bury some 15' - 20' of feedline & rotator cable from the base of my tower, to the shack window in the basement... I specifical
Author: "Diane and Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:15:13 -0500
Hi Larry, Whatever...! It's STILL light-years better than the situation that I had here before I installed the conduit. ~73!~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ** -- Original Message -- From: "Larry stowell" <l
Author: "Diane and Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:00:15 -0500
Hi Gary, I've never shunt-fed my tower here (it's a 48' self-supporter, with a Hygain TH3 atop it), however, when I first installed it, the rotator needle would "dance" in sync with my QRO 160-meter
Author: "Diane and Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:42:34 -0500
"...I am still curious how you are going to keep the static build-up discharged?" ** Hi Tom, I think two ordinary 2.5 mh. RF cokes from each individual feed wire to ground would do the trick... That'
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:50:40 -0500
Hi Guys, This has nothing particularly to do with TOWERS, per se, but I'm wondering if anyone reading this might have an idea, or two (it'll require CLIMBING the tower here in any event, I'm sure!).
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:19:11 -0500
Hi Guys, Many thanks to all who took the time respond to my request for info as to. why the SWR on the 20- and 15-meter operation of my tri-bander is suddenly so high... I guess the only way to reall
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:58:53 -0500
Hi Rex, Fred Hammond, VE3HC (of Hammond Manufacturing fame) was still climbing well into his 80's..! ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ** This brings up a question for me. I'm 68 and I decited to quit clim
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:14:40 -0500
Hi Guys, "...I don't solder radials I clamp them together at the base of the vertical and don't use scrap pieces that need to be joined..." ** Here's what I do--for better, or worse!--at each base of
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:45:56 -0400
Hi Chas, I don't know the size of any enclosure that you'd need to protect that tuner, but FWIW, I have three 3/8-wave inverted "L" antennas that I phase for a directive array on 160-meters--each "L"
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 08:35:22 -0400
Hi K9IL, I don't know if your location experiences frost or not, but if the ground does, indeed, freeze-up where you are, bank on a hole depth of no less that 4.5-feet, on penalty of the whole affair
Author: "Diane & Edward Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 10:32:03 -0400
"...Further, in my opinion, too much reliance is placed on modeling however the author did attempt field strength measurements (but in a flawed way)..." ** ** Hi Rob et al, IMHO, ALL of the antenna a
Hi Guys, IMHO, most of the mystique surrounding radials is deliberately concocted black magic propagated by a handful of self-serving gurus desperate to somehow stand alone above us masses of great u
Hi Jim, I fear that that very same mantra seems to prevail now re. radials, only in reverse... Specifically, "...Put in as many radials as you can. PERIOD." Well, to a newcomer, just how many is "as
Hi Jim, Naw, it's all part of the fun of being a Ham! It's a learning curve--there is no such thing as an "ideal state"--it's relative. Enjoy the ride, read all you can, try all you can--but make you
Good Day All, Not to flog a dead horse here, or repeating what may well have already been posted, but if anyone wants to read THE definitive stuff on ground radials, here's an EXCELLENT place to star
Hi Gene, All I've ever done here--and so far, so good, as they say!--is smear a TINY bit of Vaseline-brand petroleum jelly on the PL-259 prong, & on the threads of the mating SO-239 connector. I then
Hi Hans, I had the very same thing happen here with my old Hygain TH3-Mark III three element tri-bander, i.e. suddenly the SWR was A-OK (i.e. unchanged) on 10, but sky high on 15 and 20 meters... Wel
Hi Mike, The DELHI-brand self-supporting tower instructions here do not specifically reference the necessity of coating the in-cement leg extensions with ANYTHING... They DO, however, explicitly stat
Hi Chas, The Delhi-brand tower sections--including the base extensions that are placed inside the concrete base--have bolt holes at each end for attaching to the next section(s)...the extensions are
Hi Roger, Read the line you just saved again--there are no cross braces at the base extensions...! : >) ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ** _______________________________________________ ________________