I don't like the swinging gate from IIX. Here's why. The mounts only clamps to ONE leg of the tower. You have to tighten the U bolts too tight to get the mount not to turn. This puts way too much pr
The top bearing is just a larger diameter PVC coupling Ubolted to an angle iron.. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing lis
I just got a rope over a tree after 4 years of trying. I need a dipole center insulator that has strain relief for the coax. To clear the branches, the coax will be pulling against the center support
I guess there's nothing commercially available, I think I'll just leave a couple feet of extra support rope hanging and tape the coax to it for a little strain relief. Thanks all;Dick NY1Ewww.ny1e.
I hate to admit I know this but it sounds like an old half wave CB antenna called a super mag... _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tower
But an 8 footer will be 96.5 inches long!!! Dick NY1Ewww,ny1e.com You think that's bad.. got to your lumber yard and measure a 2x4 or a 2x6., then see what you are paying for! John KO4XJ ____________
Lets not get carried away, 4-5 feet of 1.5" (1.9 OD) water pipe is fine for your antenna...Works for many 40 meter beams 10' above the tribander... Please don't use Sch 40 water pipe even for a VHF
"I come across this situation all the time. Anytime someone wants to build an addition or where there used to be a structure I tell them specifically to move or remove any utility that is within the
Can I use a splitter to combine 2 TV yagis pointed in different directions? Does making the feedlines from the spilitter the same length matter in this case? Dick NY1E _______________________________
I have one, mine is 26 VAC.... I'd get a variac and slowly ramp the voltage up and see where it pulls in. The coils could be 12V, 24V, or 120V _______________________________________________ ________
I'm operating from a small lot in Florida winters, I have a 40M dipole up but it doesn't quite fit my opening, it is into the branches 5 or 6 feet. I wonder what the 51' G5RV would perform like compa
I'm looking on Ebay for an adapter, SO-239 to male F. I see alot of SO-239 to mini UHF, is that another name for an F? I've never heard of a mini UHF,,,de Dick NY1E __________________________________
(as an aside, I seldom used BOP..wouldn't waste my time if I ever stack 2m 6m yagis again, hi!) Mike, I guess it depends on what you want to do, for contesting on 6M, Bip-Bop was great for me, From
I just bought some #14 Flexweave to replace the THHN on my 40 meter dipole (not because of the current controversy, it was in the works before) but I put it through the insulator and wrap it around i
I'm in a limited space location, I'm looking for a wire antenna to use on 40-10 meters. The handbook says a 40m dipole fed with ladder line will be 2 half waves in phase on 20, and have 1.8 db gain.
Does anyone here have one connected to their transceiver with the MFJ cable? I now have my second MFJ-998, and it acts just like the first. it tunes fine but not like I understand it's supposed to wo
Well, I converted to ladder line, I'm running 10 ft of RG8 Buryflex to a DX Engineering Balun feeding 43 ft of 450 ohm ladder line to my 40M dipole. 20 meters is about the same on either this or the
Has anyone modified a CC 3el with a longer boom, It must be improvable! Or does anyone have a .ez file of the original?de Dick NY1E _______________________________________________ ___________________
Terry, I did the same thing but on a smaller scale, My antenna is only a 3el 6 meter beam at 29' the bearing is at 8' with the rotor at the bottom. I don't know if I'd try it with a tribander and al
When I arrived back in Florida for the winter, first thing I did was stack my 6 M beams. When I go to operate I find my 1.1:1 match had moved to 51.8 Mhz. after fooling around with the antennas I eve