- 121. [TowerTalk] The Balun Blues (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:12:51 -0500 (EST)
- The only thing not said this time around on baluns wound of coax is that previous posts said to wind them with the turns IN LINE, not bundled together-- i.e., like a coil. de K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: htt
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00076.html (7,717 bytes)
- 122. [TowerTalk] Rohn HDBX Tower - Boom Length (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:31:48 -0500 (EST)
- Here is what I have put on Rohn BX-style towers myself: 1-- Hornet/Swann four element trap tribander, I think at least 18 ft. boom. Installed on HDBX-48 directly out of the Rohn warehouse, by the boo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00079.html (9,984 bytes)
- 123. [TowerTalk] Rohn BX/HBX/HDBX and Boom Length (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:38:52 -0500 (EST)
- Climbing an HDBX-48 is like being on an oil derick-- very very solid and stable. Ps... this style tower can be enhanced with horiz. cross members bolted on at the eight foot joints-- u could use the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00080.html (7,355 bytes)
- 124. [TowerTalk] Rohn HDBX Tower - Boom Length (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:43:45 -0500 (EST)
- One more thing on the BX style towers-- In any config. this is a great tower for quads, especially the boomless spider type because there is low boom load (!) and no upper guy wires to get in the way
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00081.html (8,131 bytes)
- 125. [TowerTalk] The Balun Blues (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 15:28:38 -0500 (EST)
- With all the reports of burned baluns, I now know why others win contests when I do not. I have run 1500 watts all day into my stuff at all kinds of bad swr's, and never burned out a balun. I now kno
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00088.html (7,761 bytes)
- 126. [TowerTalk] BX/HDBX type towers climbing (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:05:11 -0500 (EST)
- The climb on the BX cross braces is a toughie, but my HDBX-48 has factory added horiz. cross pieces on one side of the top section for climbing and mainly for standing there. This was factory standar
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00098.html (7,974 bytes)
- 127. [TowerTalk] BX "safe" load (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:02:18 -0500 (EST)
- In discussing BX-style towers, no information is useful unless it specifies which sections of BX is involved. That is, BX comes in eight different eight-foot sections, named BX-1 thru BX-8, with one
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00195.html (7,973 bytes)
- 128. [TowerTalk] burying cable (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:44:25 -0500 (EST)
- On the hose encased coax, when you "zipped it out of its self-buried trench," did water also zip out? K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contestin
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00208.html (7,445 bytes)
- 129. [TowerTalk] Top Ten Devices (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 22:46:27 -0500 (EST)
- I just purchased and have installed one six-way Remote Switch Box and six of the A/B Switch boxes. If thinking of doing same, here are my comments for what they are worth: 1. consider purchasing only
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00225.html (9,540 bytes)
- 130. [TowerTalk] Testing beams (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:53:45 -0500 (EST)
- My experience, here comes my 2 cents-- is that operator skill accounts for 80 to 90 percent of achievement in contests. Look at the WRTC results in something like a test circumstance. About testing a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00335.html (7,991 bytes)
- 131. [TowerTalk] Need pop rivet tool for Force 12 antenna info (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:39:03 -0500 (EST)
- Urgent need for specs for purchase of pop rivet installer tool for Force 12 antennas-- the C-3 DXpedition version. Please respond direct to me with very specific info-- I am not too bright-- about mo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00338.html (8,725 bytes)
- 132. [TowerTalk] riveter (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 09:33:57 -0500 (EST)
- Thanks all for riveter info. Am on way to store now!!! K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUES
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00346.html (6,844 bytes)
- 133. [TowerTalk] fitting rotors into 25G and HDBX (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 23:04:47 -0500 (EST)
- The T2X will go inside 25G at the rotor shelf factory placement point. Also, I turned my T2X every way but loose to get it inside the #3 top section of a HDBX and finally gave up. The next day, KU4HZ
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00022.html (8,473 bytes)
- 134. [TowerTalk] 80M Vert. ?????? (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:56:06 -0500 (EST)
- I use the HyGain HyTower as an all band vertical. It is free standing. Tops out at about 50 feet. I just worked Bahraine (?) A9 , on it an hour ago-- was better than a 1/4 wave sloper and a full size
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00040.html (8,139 bytes)
- 135. [TowerTalk] erection (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:18:44 -0500 (EST)
- On doing concrete bases, one serious note, one not: 1. why not use a length of twoXfour nailed to a ground stake and u-bolted to each leg (three pieces of wood, three stakes, etc.) the way constructi
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00077.html (8,618 bytes)
- 136. [TowerTalk] Tower Lubrication (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:02:27 -0500 (EST)
- I agree on the many good effects of Vaseline. Works on baby's butt; will work on tower cables. Feels good to the touch. About mosture/water penetration: In my experience, water or water vapor which l
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00128.html (8,871 bytes)
- 137. [TowerTalk] HY-GAIN 18HT HyTower 18-HT (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:32:17 -0500 (EST)
- Should I have a eight to ten turn --six inch diameter-- in line coil of coax at the base feed point of my HyTower all band vertical??? My coax is buried from window to base of tower- about 75 feet. B
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00164.html (7,655 bytes)
- 138. [TowerTalk] The Anger of Trees (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:27:50 -0500 (EST)
- I had to cut down a smallish pine in order to put up my HyTower in my back yard. I appologized to it and to all the other trees in the area. However, I think they got mad: 1. Ant was up 6 mos and a p
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00188.html (8,517 bytes)
- 139. [TowerTalk] The Anger of Trees (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:24:16 -0500 (EST)
- What a wonderful bunch of guys on this reflector! Best response to "anger of trees" was advice not to ski near them. BTW, if u want to know how to refurbish a HyTower when knocked down, tune in to me
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00197.html (8,371 bytes)
- 140. [TowerTalk] The Anger of Trees (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:37:42 -0500 (EST)
- Hello everyone, Well, u can talk abt ur DXCC and ur 5BDXCC and ur WAZ etc etc etc, but I have reached the real pinnicle, the absolute zenith of my internet career-- the award of starting a thread whi
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00215.html (9,302 bytes)
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