- 141. [TowerTalk] Mixing different coaxs (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:20:45 -0500 (EST)
- I have a run of 9913 that is taped with five other coaxes and one rotor cable that has survived many crank downs/ups on 70 ft tower with no failure at all. I also have this same package in the rotor
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00327.html (7,522 bytes)
- 142. [TowerTalk] TH6DXX (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:44:25 -0500 (EST)
- HyGain is the best consumer support I know of-- and will sell you end caps etc. No toll-free ordering number, however. K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00405.html (7,947 bytes)
- 143. [TowerTalk] Ginpole comments solicited (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:51:07 -0500 (EST)
- I made a ten foot gin pole out of some .25 mast material and due to specific need, added a very stout (1/4" steel) angle iron "L" at the top so that the pull down from the top of the pole would be ce
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00407.html (7,714 bytes)
- 144. [TowerTalk] Antenna analyzer comments wanted (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:53:36 -0500 (EST)
- I own and use the MFJ 259 and find it just great except in very high RF environments. K4UCF club roof mounted antennas are about 1000 feet from a 40,000 watt FM xmitter. MFJ readings are no good ther
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00408.html (7,169 bytes)
- 145. [TowerTalk] FIlters (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:01:59 -0500 (EST)
- Can I trust the front end of a $4,000 rig to a stub "filter" ??? K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towert
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00431.html (8,062 bytes)
- 146. [TowerTalk] FIlters (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:45:30 -0500 (EST)
- Ok, but what happens when the operating freq. deviates a little or a lot from the stub design freq.? K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00452.html (8,589 bytes)
- 147. [TowerTalk] Rotor Connector (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:53:01 -0500 (EST)
- As I am sure many will tell you. try this: get the eight wire "trailer" connector (sold at least by THE WIREMAN) and make up a pigtail from the rotor screw terminal strip to the male end of this wate
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00454.html (9,161 bytes)
- 148. [TowerTalk] More on Band Reject Stubs... (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:04:13 -0500 (EST)
- Can the stubs be coiled up or must they lay out in a straight (or curved?) line? K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00457.html (7,081 bytes)
- 149. [TowerTalk] Re: Rotor Connector (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:48:19 -0500 (EST)
- Cinch-Jones plugs come in eight terminal versions and male and female and chassis mount and in-line, and thus are very flexible in uses, HOWEVER, it is difficult to water "proof" them for outdoor rot
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00470.html (10,806 bytes)
- 150. [TowerTalk] Cinch Jones Disappearing Forever??? (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:52:02 -0500 (EST)
- A great store named Skycraft in Orlando FL has a whole rack of Cinch Jones plugs and sockets from two pin to over 12 pin. Yesterday they had two double hands full of 8 pin of both genders. If u are e
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00476.html (7,627 bytes)
- 151. [TowerTalk] Right coax for my station? (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:52:16 -0500 (EST)
- I have used the regular Belden 9913 (air core etc) taped along with four other RG-8 coax cables around the rotor (that is, via a loop to accomodate the truning rotor) for over eight years without fai
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00013.html (8,618 bytes)
- 152. [TowerTalk] PolyPhaser (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:38:09 -0500 (EST)
- The very fact that a former employee of a company, any company, has to "toe the party line" means that that company is not being completely honest nor scientific in its release of advice. The old pro
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00086.html (7,576 bytes)
- 153. [TowerTalk] Stripper for RG 213 (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:46:17 -0500 (EST)
- Ok, I have had it. Here is how to trim coax for installing a PL-259: Use sharp knife and cut around the outer plastic while not knicking the braid. Tin braid around the lower part of the exposed brai
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00087.html (9,050 bytes)
- 154. [CQ-Contest] Re: [TowerTalk] Optimum Height for 10M Beam (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:22:06 -0500 (EST)
- I still say that if you must be limited to one beam and one height, a TH-7 at 70 feet is the best that can be had. K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towert
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00347.html (7,943 bytes)
- 155. [TowerTalk] Tailtwister Start Problems at Low Temps (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 15:36:44 -0500 (EST)
- I just got a DCU-1 (the automatic control head) for my HyGain rotors (I can plug them interchangeably). What my control head does every time, is start the rotor in the opposite direction you have com
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00621.html (8,559 bytes)
- 156. [TowerTalk] Rohn HDBX leg brackets (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 16:05:07 -0500 (EST)
- U can install side mount devices to the U-channel leg HDBC Rohn series of towers by placing a short length of strong pipe inside the U-channel, thus making the U a circle. Then mount away!!! de K4VUD
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00623.html (7,150 bytes)
- 157. [TowerTalk] BIG tower (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 16:45:27 -0500 (EST)
- I just wish u had not described the BIG tower in Houston (for TV). Now some group of hams will JUST HAVE to have one for themselves. Look for the posting that begins . . . . I just started a project
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00630.html (7,779 bytes)
- 158. [TowerTalk] C4XL Driven Element Placement (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:13:27 -0500 (EST)
- I must say that if I pay big buks for a beam kit, I want it to work the first time upon correct (a la mfg.'s instructions) assembly. If I wanted to spend lots of money for something I had to haul up
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00633.html (7,706 bytes)
- 159. [TowerTalk] baluns and wire antennas (kinda long) (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:36:47 -0500 (EST)
- I have run a TH-7 with the "little" balun (BN-86) for over five years with no failure at all and 1.5 kw into it and hammering it as hard as the law allows. I changed to the "bigger" balun (BN-4000) l
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00703.html (7,833 bytes)
- 160. [TowerTalk] baluns and wire antenna (score: 1)
- Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:56:40 -0500 (EST)
- I must have the only 75 meter sloper that works the first time I put it up. I tied the shield to the tower leg a foot below the top, and ran the other end (60 ft or so, can't remember, but it was hal
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00707.html (8,654 bytes)
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