Yup - I agree. They usually use an auger on a truck and then the truck has a crane-type device to drop the pole into the hole. I have just enough room for it to get into my back yard. I plan a pole o
HEY SKIP -- I REMEMBER YOU! You once replied to an email from me with tower questions, and were very courteous to a new ham. I just realized that you are him... or he is you... or... ;-) THANKS, agai
I thought that was a self-supporting tower and did not need guy wires... Can that tower really hold the load? I am told the BX series towers can only take a wind loading of approx 6.5 sq ft - at leas
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I feel that way at 20 feet on a ladder.... I can sympathize with your feelings at 90 feet. (Or do I "empathize"... never got all that psychobabble stuff down in school...) But whatever, the correct w
Oh... I guess you would not want your nuts in a jam. Anon -- -- _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contes
Considering the cost... I say yes. Why crap around with rusty parts when it is such a small expense. //////////////////// K8JHR //////////////////// the u-clamps on the guy == _______________________
I do not fully understand this reply... 1) If he climbs it, there will be one "guy" on it... 2) As the tower is already up... how will you get the guy wires on it if he does not climb it and attach t
That sounds like a good argument AGAINST house bracketing, not FOR it... Happy trails. /// K8JHR /// == == _______________________________________________ ____________________________________________
Does anyone use those tilt over mounts that some guy makes and sells - saw an ad for them on QRZ.com?\ http://www.nn4zz.com/tiltplate.htm //////////// Richards - K8JHR ///////////////// -- __________
Are you talking apples to apples? I thought the question was a vertical dipole vs a horizontal dipole of the same size. It sounds to me like you have a vertical with radials vs a horizontal dipole ..
thanks -- I am learning all the time. Thanks for knowing it was a serious question. Happy trails. // K8JHR // == == _______________________________________________ ___________________________________
I believe I once read you tune the longest band element first, and then work up to the higher band elements, and then check back on the longer band elements, and work through that a few cycles until
Dr Mal -- Do you use anything as a sort of line isolation transformer in your dipole design? Or... do you just connect the coax to a simple center conductor and run with it? Some advocate a several t
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Do you think one could put a decent loop on a suburban lot that is only 100 feet by 60 feet? How big a loop and how high do you suppose it might have to be? I figure I could put something up that is
Thanks for the uptake. Maybe I will try one. The guys in my Friday ham lunch bunch were also thinking a loop would work as I cannot get a straight wire out long enough. Thanks . -- K8JHR -- == == ___
Novice Alert: Could someone please identify which section of my ARRL Antenna book covers this "Delta Loop" - as that term does not appear in the Index. I do not mind doing the homework on stuff, but
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OK -- I will have to widen my research to include both the sky wire loop and the delta loop - and they are clearly different animals with different feeding and grazing behaviors. Great fun. Thanks fo