Call Joel at the RF connection. He will be able to tell you what you need and probably has it. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ __________________________________________
That's a whole lot more average power than a 1500 watt SSB signal. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list
I have from time to time seen it professed that mounting two antennas on opposite sides of the mast will equalize the torque supplied by wind. The only thing mounting on opposite sides of the mast wi
I searched for the two part article but could not find it. I did find a summary of it that he (Dick Weber) wrote in one of the DX journals that John N5CQ supplied and some references that Kurt K7NV m
Thanks for the link Wes. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.con
I concur with Paul. I have been doing this for over 40 years with one exception. Rather than soldering the braid and then trimming it after soldering I found that trimming the braid with a pair of el
I have an electrician friend that will not pull romex in conduit. He always uses single multi stranded wires instead. He says they are much easier to pull than romex that is less flexible. Consider r
Like Jim says, I wouldn't go down in that hole either. Last year I had a garage built some distance from the house and had to have a long trench dug to run water, gas, antenna lines etc. The trench w
In rebuilding a 40 meter antenna I found the element ends (2") were grooved by over tightening the U bolts. I purchased an exhaust pipe expander kit with various size dies to take the wrinkles out. I
The only thing that a half wave or multiple of does is repeat the impedance seen at one end, at the other end. It does not match anything. And it is only true at one frequency. There will still be SW
I have done this and used an impact driver to turn the expander. It gets very hard to turn by hand. Be careful that you don't overdo it. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________
I recently took down an A3s (had caps on element ends and boom ends). The traps with vent holes would whistle in the wind. How do you fix that problem? Any problems with the open element ends whistli
Be sloppy! Don't bundle them together. With VHF and UHF systems it is recommended to leave as much distance between cables as practical. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________
Trying to make a vertical for 80 meters and 160. I have an LM354 crank up tower with a full size 40 meter rotatable dipole (about 67 feet in length) on it. The tower is about 54 feet tall with a 10 f
Be careful of the template. I have one that is off about what you see (as I remember). I don't remember which rotator it was for but it came from the back of the rotator manual. 73 Gary K4FMX _______
If you have an open or short in the feedline you can find it with the mFJ. It has a cable length function that will do it. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ ______________
You need to hold the mode button pressed while powering up. That puts you in advanced mode. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ _____________________________________________
I don't think that I would put a 20 foot mast on top of a crank up tower! What type of mast do you plan to use? Aluminum, Molly etc? I have that same tower and it would worry me with that high of a m
I had a similar problem with a Kenwood TS430. It has lots of relays in the front end to change filters etc. Sometimes just hitting the transmit button momentarily would make the products go away, oth