Amazing how there is almost no wind.... 73, Joe kk0sd Airline ad.mp4 If you're afraid of heights, do not watch this. It's about 90 seconds long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9lxeGllhTQ Cheers,S
Maybe an EZNEC grandmaster could do it in 10 minutes, but for the beginner nothing can be done with any NEC program in 10 minutes. 73, Joe kk0sd Instead of using rules of thumb from ancient history,
Butternut Butterfly antenna? -- Just a wild guess... 73, Joe kk0sd Found a butternut box with ten aluminum pieces that telescope into each other making two poles about 7 each. Also contains bag with
I had a long talk with a ham friend the other day and he is looking for someone to install a modest tower and antenna system. He lives here in Watertown, South Dakota. He is looking for something lik
Carol, I believe I am one of the authors of the April 2021 QST article you referring too. I would have never thought to run high power through a type 'F' connector, and was a little surprised at what
1. The F connector has a peak rating of 1200 V RMS, but I totally agree I would not be comfortable using it. 2. We had access to a way to test up to a 1000 Vdc. All of the rest of the test equipment
How do folks go about salvaging heliax? My local club has (and will soon have more) some pretty big chunks of heliax as the result of some repeater work. Some of it is damaged, but even as old as it
I have used their LMR-400 clone, and many other products from them. Everything worked as advertised. 73, Joe kk0sd Anybody have any experience with the LMR-600 take off from L-Com. Their CA-600 seems
R and L will sell you what you need. You may want to call them, but they list it on the web site. http://www.randl.com/shop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=7030&products_id=7459 73, Joe kk0sd I have a
I've been using Bolt Depot. https://www.boltdepot.com/ I do not know their sources, but have had nothing but great service. 73, Joe kk0sd Hello T-Talkers ! Wondering what your recommended sources for
The pictures almost don't do it justice. The larger tower fell over when the footing for the guys on the upwind side of the tower actually pulled out of the ground. We had a long dry spell causing th
My Wayback skills are not that good, but I suspect you can find what you are looking for here: https://web.archive.org/web/20041021082605/http://www.cushcraft.com/amateur/support/instruction-manuals.
The aging members of the Lake Area Radio Klub are looking to replace the hand crank mechanism on our crankup tower trailer with an electric winch. Ideally the winch could be used to tip the tower up
Our club has both antennas - the coils are different 73, Joe kk0sd Hi all, I have an old Mosley TA-33-M that I picked up last year at Dayton. I did some reconditioning last year before I put it up. c
I once had surprisingly good luck with two chain wrenches and two jacks as a last resort. 73, Joe n0sd _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
I'm going to open up some rough sounding rotators. Two of them are Alliance HD-73s that get used once or twice a year by the radio club, and the third is a Yaesu G450A that will go into somewhat more
Hello - We had a frustrating afternoon today trying to put up a Hy-Gain TH-3JRS at the QTH of Rich, KE0EPY. The antenna is previously owned, and we replaced the broken aluminum matching wire (beta ma
Yes, we got the same results with the old MFJ-259 and a RigExpert analyzer. 73, Joe n0sd Do you have another device to measure impedance and SWR?Some reliable antenna analyzer?73,Gary K9GS -- Origina
Thanks Jim, We did test with the long coax on the ground, and your point is well taken about the balun vs a choke. We will take a fine tooth comb to our hairpin recreation. I suspect that may be a co
We had a much better day today. We removed the hairpin, and the choke and fed the antenna with split coax and got the same results as before. -- Has to be a trap... The traps all measure as dead shor