A buddy of mine is installing a 190' of rotating 55G. He's having a helluva time trying to buy the 39" long pre-form deads for em. His local dealer wants $300.00 just to order em in. Think the grips
We just went through a big wind storm all last night [ thursday night/fri morning]. The commercial AC power flickered and dimmed a few times. It eventually died for 2 hrs. Ok, what happens with the H
Can a small say 45 uh choke be placed across the feed point of a direct fed OWA yagi ?? The idea here was to sorta dc grnd both sides of the DE. The coax will be routed back to a 1 in 6 out remote sw
morning]. The commercial AC power flickered and dimmed a few times. It eventually died for 2 hrs. all broadside to the wind.. and power goes off ?? method ?? [ hand winch, cordless drill, etc] I don'
The kicker is... if you have say 3 db of loss back to the station, then you need an extra 3db of drive power. You also LOSE 3 db on RX ! You also require a LONG run of 240 vac line, to base of tower,
Commerical user's in EU were next. Spread to NA in the mid 90's. pep on hf bands. Not much bigger than a typeN /so-239. 1.25" square vs 1" square for a female chassis connector. which is DOUBLE PEP /
I just took possession of a used US Tower Corp HDX-689 yesterday. What's the deal on the 2 x thrust bearings? Mine are both for a 2" mast. What I DON'T see is.. any set screws, etc for either of the
Hello, I'm looking to purchase few bottles of Penetrox A and I'm not able to find a Ham radio dealer in U.S. or Europe selling this by mail. Few years ago, I purchased from Radio Works in Dayton, but
My US Tower HDX-589MDPL, which is motorized with the remote control option, recently took a very large, direct lightning hit. it came with the remote control box, the previous owner had main control
My story about a 2" - 20 Foot Aluminum Mast = GOOD ! From day one, we used an aluminum 2" OD THICK WALL ALUMINUM CONDUIT Mast. strength ?? Once you know that, the rest is simple... just plug the numb
http://www.n4zkf.com/files/Tower.jpg Here is what happens. (the TV antenna in the foreground mounted to the service drop isn't mine, it's my idiot neighbor. It's 20 ft away it just doesn't look it in
[Dennis] "From day one, we used an aluminum 2" OD THICK WALL ALUMINUM CONDUIT Mast." I was curious about aluminum conduit. A quick search says that modern aluminum conduit is 6063 temper T-1 (our typ
I notice that Texas Towers carries a line of steel masts. A friend recommended the 20 foot steel 0.25 mast. He said that if I nested about 7 feet or so in the tower and kept the rotor lower it would
Will the Orion 2800 rotator fit through the side rails of the Rohn 45 or do you need to cut/bend the rails. If it doesn't I might get the top base plate BPL45G and fit it to a standard section 10 foo
http://www.tashtowers.com/pricelist.html Scroll down the list and you will see weight, size and length. TT will be about the same price. Mike, K6BR They are not only way cheaper than US Tower corp CM
It almost sounds like they were not tightened down to the correct torque to begin with because they should not have come loose with lock washers. I would get new nuts, bolts and lock washers and torq
If I am not wrong in The Antenna Compendium vol. I or vol. II, there is a wide bandwidth dipole made with only two wires spaced about 6 feet for 160m, wires meet at the ends on each half of the anten
What are folks' opinions on nuts with nylon inserts in the cap? We refurbished a Jontz tower, and used them. They seem to be doing very well after 5 years. Joe kk0sd embedded anchor rods used for the
I was curious and found this. Taco sells the same tower that Wade did as Delhi The install instructions for Taco DMX are here http://www.tvantenna.com/products/tvreception/mounting/towers/taco/dmx/DM
Thanks for responding. Actually, I have read and re-read "Up The Tower" several times. It actually doesn't give specifics about where on the mast to go. I don't understand why they sell 15' reinforce