K1IR asks a great question -- a question that highlights an interesting subtlety in the relationship between Rohn specs for towers and their data for guy wires: Rohn's tensioning rules for guy wires
This winter I put up a 90-foot Rohn 45 guyed tower -- partly to support my HF Yagis and partly to serve as my top-loaded 160-meter vertical. Because the ground was frozen by the time I could get arou
Now, wait a minute, guys. I don't think Yuri is *always* wrong with that statement. Let's look at some specific cases. If the guy wires are terminated so far away from the tower that they're essenti
Well, nothing I can add will top W7EW's Tip #4 (Go the the bathroom BEFORE you go up the tower), but here's a couple of small ones for us older folks who don't take kindly to having to climb more tha
Well, "easy to say" but not so simple to actually DO with a Johnson Matchbox. To take the cover off requires you to first remove the knobs on the capacitor shafts, so you instantly lose any pointer r
Does anyone here have any experience with or opinions about replacing the first set of guy wires on a (say) 90-foot Rohn 45 tower with a house bracket? (In other words, a 90-foot tower bracketed to a
The relationship is NOT linear, although in Bob's particular example, a more accurate answer isn't very far from the number he would get if he did assume it was linear. The charts in the Rohn catalog
Yes, I agree with Yuri. Most of the great topics on this reflector are the direct result of amateurs attempting to squeeze the most mileage (both literally and figuratively) out of their feedline, su
Please don't say that within earshot of my TS-950SDX....it already has enough of an inferiority complex from being left out of all these comparisons. Bud, K2KIR ______________________________________
I strongly prefer it the way it is. That's why e-mail programs give us the choice of "Reply" or "Reply All". Bud, K2KIR _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com
Jim's comment made me chuckle. Years ago (50s), the MIT club station (W11MX) was in a Quonset hut on the westernmost end of the campus, separated from the nearest "real" buildings by athletic fields.
Over the years I've probably butchered more PL-259s than anyone else on this reflector, but my current opinion is that a 100/250-watt gun is about minimum for the job, especially if you're going to s
I've had my Omega Match capacitors for my shunt-fed tower in a Rubbermaid container for about fifteen years now, at two different locations. As far as I can tell, the container is like new, except fo