Nobody seems to mention filing/scoring the area you're soldering. I wondered what the file on my Leatherman tool was for but it works great for this. As I recall, you don't want to file the silver pl
After hemming and hawing about putting a rooftop tower up, I'm still hemming and hawing. But in the mean time I'm about to put up a Rohn roof mount tripod on the garage. (Less to damage there.) It wi
Isn't there something called wellcasing? I'm sorry to be guessing, but I think that's what w7rr used for his foursquare. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com BSEE (6/86) + BSChem (3/95) + BAEng
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, W1GOR wrote: a. Is that the flagpole makers rule-of-thumb, and does the depth depend upon the size of the flag and wind conditions..? b. The communications industry standard for
All indications point to a company that's swamped with orders. I asked about lead times on a vertical and they got back to me four weeks later after I already put up something else. However, my frien
Actually, ip uses a 4-tuple to identify connections: 2 ports and 2 ip addresses. The port on the server end for http is 80, not the client end. So if someone is probing port 80, that means they're lo
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jim Brown wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:07:22 -0800 (PST), N6KJ wrote: I'm once again taking a look at the TV market. I'm particularly interested in a flat LCD/Plasma HDTV unit.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about Steve. I was going to suggest contacting Paul Nyland (K7PN) and just have the tower work professionally done by a guy local to Portland. But Steve does that work, too, and th
We took down a TH6DXX off of a tower for an guy who didn't want it up any longer. It had been up around 20 years but probably could be cleaned up and put to use again. Somehow I ended up with it and
Oh, and I wasn't complete enough: If you want this thing it's in Portland, Oregon. I've also tried to give it away at the DX Club meeting (I'm the treasurer). Maybe I haven't tried hard enough, but p