- 1. [TowerTalk] Mast Collars (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Mon Aug 4 20:14:01 2003
- Larry: I did the same thing John did - used two back-to-back muffler clamps and a pair of straight carriage bolts to hold them together. However, you might have to saw off about a quarter-inch of eac
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00102.html (10,677 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Feedline in Conduit (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Mon Aug 4 21:56:06 2003
- Jerry: I would use solid conduit, with drain holes drilled in the underside of the plastic at the low points in the run. I would cover these holes with flower bed screening material (allows the water
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00114.html (9,028 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] Mast Collars (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Tue Aug 5 18:20:52 2003
- Bob: The URL that Larry K1UO sent the list leads to a tech spec page http://www.ruland.com/axial.html . You can see that these collars have a specification for axial loading. I suspect that most ham
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00163.html (11,212 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] Broadband over Power Line Video (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Wed Aug 6 22:33:58 2003
- Chris et al: Using fiber- (fibre?-) optic cable on powerlines is not new. The Brits developed this technology in the early 80's (CEGB deployed it first), and in 1981 Hydro Quebec were the first folks
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00208.html (12,307 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] Rebar cage for tower footing (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Sun Aug 10 16:32:36 2003
- Bob: As others will undoubtedly tell you, don't let the rebar ends sit directly on dirt. Moisture will corrode the ends and eventually propagate up into the concrete, defeating the purpose of the reb
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-08/msg00338.html (9,988 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] Bending Rebar (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Wed Jul 2 12:59:38 2003
- Jerry: I had to bend some #6 (3/4 inch diameter) rebar for use with my Trylon foundation a couple of years ago. It wasn't very difficult. (Thanks to Brian N8WRL for this technique.) I got a piece of
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-07/msg00028.html (9,202 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Masting (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Thu Jul 3 11:56:35 2003
- Larry: I bought my 22 feet of CM from: Special Metals, Inc. 6406 South Eastern Oklahoma City, OK 73149 Sales: Joe Varva 800-727-7177 Joe was very easy to work with and he had the mast delivered to my
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-07/msg00047.html (8,227 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] FD antenna (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Thu Jul 3 22:27:11 2003
- Greg: Seventy-five or fifty Ohm coax will work fine. I fed my 80M horizontal loop with RG-8X (plus tuner) for almost nine years on all bands and it worked great. The feedpoint impedance of a FW loop
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-07/msg00064.html (8,203 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] Potentially interesting FCC ruling today (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Tue Jul 8 16:50:24 2003
- TT: http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Digest/2003/dd030707.html . Then scroll down to the ruling on the Cingular Wireless case, about two-thirds of the way down the page. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F r
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-07/msg00133.html (10,460 bytes)
- 10. [TowerTalk] Positioning Belt needed... (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Sat Jul 19 10:10:24 2003
- Cliff: The positioning belt I have is from the Buckingham arborist catalog. It's several layers of rubber-impregnated nylon with safety snap hooks at either end and a friction buckle in the middle. Y
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-07/msg00326.html (10,228 bytes)
- 11. [TowerTalk] Burying radials (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (ersmar@comcast.net)
- Date: Fri Jun 6 14:24:27 2003
- Bud: I don't envy you and the work you'll be doing setting down your ground wires in that forest! But I can help with the staple idea. I have about a half-mile of various gauge radial wires in the gr
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00105.html (12,229 bytes)
- 12. [TowerTalk] Looking for plastic coax straps (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (ersmar@comcast.net)
- Date: Tue Jun 10 21:03:21 2003
- Tony: Save yourself some money and use insulated #12 solid wire as tie wraps. I've used this on my tower for coax and rotator control cables on the inside of the tower's legs. Reusable a few times be
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00170.html (8,004 bytes)
- 13. [TowerTalk] Do I need to climb my tubular tower? (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (ersmar@comcast.net)
- Date: Thu Jun 19 11:43:09 2003
- Dave: If you plan on accessing your antenna infrequently, maybe renting some scaffolding would be the answer. In my younger (college summer) days I used to build scaffolds for the brick masons I work
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00261.html (12,471 bytes)
- 14. [TowerTalk] Advice requested (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (ersmar@comcast.net)
- Date: Thu Jun 19 16:40:34 2003
- Bill: Your requirements that the antenna support structure be both non-guyed and a single pipe are somewhat mutually exclusive unless you decide on a short tubular tower like the US Tower MA-40, but
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00281.html (11,127 bytes)
- 15. [TowerTalk] Trylon software (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Thu Jun 26 12:08:08 2003
- TT: I found an interesting piece of software on the Trylon Titan web page: http://www.trylon.com/lightdutytowers/selfsupporttwrs_size_towercalc.asp . It's the program Trylon use to determine whether
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00489.html (7,660 bytes)
- 16. [TowerTalk] Trylon software (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Thu Jun 26 15:55:53 2003
- Pete: Agreed. In the version of the posting that I did NOT send out I had included details of my antennas and what method I used in the model. I thought better of providing this info for fear it may
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00497.html (9,830 bytes)
- 17. [TowerTalk] Trylon software (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Fri Jun 27 01:18:02 2003
- Guy: I had a copy of this software available when I was designing my own Trylon 500-64 system. It sure was an eye-opener to see that the tower would fold considerably above ground level in an overloa
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00517.html (15,130 bytes)
- 18. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Sun Jun 29 16:32:42 2003
- Rich: Absolutely remove the form. If you don't, when the wood decays, that side of the foundation will not have the support from undisturbed earth that the other sides have. This means that you'll ha
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00542.html (9,835 bytes)
- 19. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Sun Jun 29 23:56:58 2003
- Jim: Yes, nature would step in to fill the void, but how long until that happens (the wood disintegrates and the soil fills in) and how compacted would the soil be? I don't believe in cutting corners
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00545.html (13,537 bytes)
- 20. [TowerTalk] Grounding and Insurance WD4K (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (ersmar@comcast.net)
- Date: Thu May 22 16:28:53 2003
- Jerry et al: I've written this a few times on TowerTalk: As Louie B. Meyer (of MGM Studios) once said, "Oral contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on." Get it in writing from your insuranc
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-05/msg00322.html (9,267 bytes)
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