Hi, Is there any galvanic action to worry about when using galvanized u-bolts with an aluminum boom? I know stainless can touch aluminum directly but Dick's note made me wonder about galvanized steel
If he lowers the rotor plate and mounts an accessory plate with a thrust bearing he can swap out the rotor easily in case of rotor trouble. All you have to do is secure the antennas so they don't tur
Hi, I bought a Alpha Delta DX-A twin sloper to get on 160, 80, and 40 meters with one feedline. After getting the antenna mounted and tuned on 160 I saw a spot for a VP2 station (CW). He couldn't hea
I have a Fujitsi Speedport DSL modem... If you hold the connector so the indentation is on top pin 1 is 9 o'clock, pin 2 is 6 o'clock, pin 3 is 3 o'clock, pin 4 is 7 o'clock, pin 5 is 5 o'clock, pin
Rick, I live in Wisconsin and the latest trend is to impose county-wide ordinances limiting antenna towers. It doesn't matter how far you live from town, or if you own a section (640 acres), you stil
Hi, I don't have a Ham IV, but I have a little experience with keeping bolts tight that are threaded into aluminum. The solution for aluminum heads on racing engines (VERY expensive) is to tap all th
RE: 40 meter SteppIR Well they have a military version of their antenna that is 2 elements from 3.5 - 7.0 mhz, 3 elements from 7.0 - 13.0 and 4 elements from 13.5 - 30 mhz. It's on a 33 foot boom. I
Hi, Give the SteppIR guys a call, their number can be found at www.steppir.com They are working on two versions of a transmit-receive 40-6 meter antenna. The full-size 40 meter 3/4 element version is
Well it should take care of the birds on the antenna problem! I know I shouldn't have wrote that, brace yourselves for the plastic owl replies... 73 de George / KF9YR ________________________________
Hi, The ham from the QST article is K9VDD from Madison, WI. http://www.qsl.net/k9vdd/k9vdd.htm As you can see on the web page the cell company lease has expired and they transferred ownership of the
Hi, If your primary aesthetic concern is your wife's opinion you may want to try something that has worked for me... I put in a crank-up tower and 3 element SteppIR next to our house on a city lot. H