You have expressed your options as: 1. More tower sections, and 2. Inverted L wires at the top. Here are more options: 3. Instead of 20 feet of aluminum above the tower, try 11 feet of tubing made of
You might be interested in my new book on Antenna Zoning , just out -- http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?item=8217 Copies are available today from the ARRL, copies will be on sale at the ARRL booth at Day
Ham Radio and the Law Friday 18 May 10am-12noon, Room 3. CU all there. 73, Jim W9WU Jim, I will have it posted on the web ASAP. I hope this will work again for you. See you soon. 73 Jim N8JE ________
Dear Tonno: I wrote the note you read about "VE1ZZ Splices". I went to visit him and I was fascinated by how clever he was. He uses scraps of hardline, just as you propose. Note that he does not bury
Can someone please FAX, or scan and e-mail, a copy of an article about natural towers (a tree with rotary beam) from CQ November 1968, page 83? My November issue is missing from my collection. Fred H
Does anyone have a U.S. Army Technical Manual on how to erect camouflaged antennas? If you don't have the particular manual that would be relevant, can you tell me how to find it? [And is it now some
Does anyone have a copy of "Low Profile Amateur Radio" -- published by the ARRL in 1993? If so, please contact me privately and include your phone number. Fred Hopengarten K1VR hopengarten@post.harva
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:35:39 -0700 Tom Osborne <w7why@harborside.com> writes: K1VR: That was Tom and Jerry, by Herb Brier W9EGQ. His stories of their exploits appeared in both Boys Life and Popular E
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:37:52 -0400 "Roger D. Johnson" <n1rj@pivot.net> writes: K1VR: Been there. Done that. It was 1971 at W1AF, and we had a Classic 33 plus 2 el Moseley 40 on Schedule 40 water pipe
Within the past month I had an experience which could benefit readers of this reflector. It was not the first time I've been involved in such a circumstance. As a result of those occurrences, I urge
"Antenna Zoning for the Radio Amateur", by a devilishly handsome Boston lawyer, pictured on the cover way up on a KL7Y antenna support structure, is a new book to be published by the ARRL. It will be
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:06:45 -0000 "Rick Bullon" <kc5ajx@hotmail.com> writes: K1VR: If he has owned the land for 15 years, he has been paying his taxes. Trot on down to the Assessor's Office and look
Can anyone point me to an article printed anywhere (anywhere in the world), including QST, CQ, 73, the RSGB Bulletin, WW II Army manuals, etc., especially if printed before 1992, that describes an an
Zoli: I have BOTH a ground mounted 4SQ and a 40-2CD at 90 ft. on a RingRotor for 40 meters. To EU, the 4SQ is ALWAYS 10 to 15 dB DOWN from the Yagi. To JA Long Path (over Africa) they are the same. T
by Fred Hopengarten K1VR copyright 1998 Lincoln, MA Antenna Support Structure Safety Inspection Protocol (to be completed and documented, signed and dated at time of construction and every six years
Here is a summary of the trenchant remarks made the last time the subject of Rohn Safety factor was discussed on this reflector, in the Spring and Summer of 1998. of 3, but at the moment I cannot fin
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:10:47 -0700 "Rod Brink" <rodbrink@montereybay.com> writes: K1VR: You want K4SQR (now go back and think about his callsign -- get it?). www.comteksystems.com His stuff works. .
K1VR: In my experience, for 160 m, lots of aluminum had two effects: * I had to bring the gamma rod in close to the tower, and out again, in order to get past a TH6DXX on a swinging gate side-mount.
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:57:58 -0400 "Tony Kazmakites" <n2tk@idsi.net> writes: K1VR: It works. I'm just a humble lawyer, and you shouldn't buy your engineering from me. I have no equipment to measure a