The Wal-Mart mini-torch works well at the top of the tower. Enough heat to get whatever your trying to solder even in a reasonable wind. At 12:59 PM 2/1/04, AA6DX wrote: Hey ... that's a nice item! I
Hello, Is a model (Eznec) available for the F12 EF240X? If so where could a copy be obtained. Getting ready to populate a new tower (hurricane Isabel took care of the old one!) with two of the EF240X
Hello Rick, Roger's approach is similar to what I've used for the last seven years. In my installation, two boxes are on the outside, one at the house and the other at the tower base. Each box has a
Hello, The first of two 4 element SteppIRs (4Ls) was successfully installed Saturday, 31 July, at the top of a 130 ft., guyed, Rohn 45G tower using a PVRC Mount technique. The use of the PVRC Mount a
Hello Tom, You may want to look into using a PVRC Mount and assembling the TA-53 at the top to see if this approach can work in your situation. This technique was used to assemble a 4 element SteppIR
Hello Bert, Couple ideas for you - both have been successfully used in the past: bamboo or central vacuum cleaner pipe for quad spreaders. Find someone with a bamboo patch and you will find someone w
Hello, Friend of mine has a KLM 160V and needs at least one, 3 inch, Boom Cap, Part Number PL66133. He would like to have one or two for a back up. If you have any for sale or know where they can be
Hello Tim, The 50 to 75 Ohm transmission line transformer (TLT) described by Sevick work well. Used a couple of homemade TLTs (one at each end of a 200 ft run of CATV hardline) with 1500 Watt RTTY an
Hello, Second what Mike state in his response. I've found, from hind sight as Mike said, the best method is to get as many cables through the PVC with the initial "pull". Also, remember to attach a "
Hello, What could cause a gear shaft in a T2X to fail - shear off? The symptoms of the problem were: The T2X, used to turn an EF240X and 4 element SteppIR, was removed yesterday after it started to s
Hello, The shack ground here is a 3/4" dia. X 6' copper pipe. The equipment is connected to the copper pipe using the braid stripped from old coax. The braid end going to the copper pipe is slipped u
Hello, Are the T2X and HAM-M motors the same? The motor in a spare T2X has an intermittent open (yes, I've isolated the intermittent open exclusively to the motor) and a friend has a couple of spare
Hello, Stainless steel bolts and nuts were used on my 130 ft 25 tower when Hurricane Isabel turned it into a pretzel (80 ft pine tree fell across a set of guys). Some of the bolts bent, but none shea
Hello, Yes, I've used it for FD antennas, 40 and 80 meters, as well as a pair of 480 foot Beverages. The Beverages presently are in use. The Northeast one runs through woods so every now and then you
Hello, Information on using the PVRC for the 4 element SteppIR, on the tower, assembly has been posted on the SteppIR Reflector. 73, Mike, K4GMH _______________________________________________ See: h
Hello, Regarding the ability of screw in anchors to hold - An eighty foot pine tree fell across one set of guys on my 130 foot tower in hurricane Isabel. The tower was guyed by three sets of 4 levels
Regarding L-C filters, look up Ed's, W3NQN, article in Ma7 1997, QST, titled: "Clean Up Your Signals with Band-Pass Filters". They are commercially available from Array Solutions or you can build the
Good suggestion Bob. That is very similar what I did after Hurricane Isabel turned my Rohn 25 tower into a pretzel. Couple of other things I did was to cut the 25 off so several inches remained above
Hello Bill, I'm switching a two stack of 4L SteppIRs - 132 and 100 ft. Use a homemade stackmatch plus that has BOP. First SteppIR accessory to get is Larry's, N8LP, SteppIR Tuning Relay boxes for eac
Received the following from Nathan, NW3Z: "Thanks... I forwarded the warning to NOT USE EZNEC for the antenna! Could you do me a favor and post a reply cautioning people that there are a lot of very