Greetings towertalkians: I need some R25G tower section joint bolts. When I go to my hardware store, what style, finish, type, grade, etc. bolt do I search the bins for? I don't have one available to
Greetings Dick W5AA & TowerTalkians: Did anyone entirely translate the spec information contained in the posting below? I remember a single posting from K7LXC indicating that maybe the pipe was maybe
Hi Al: Here is a web site that specializes in Beverage antenna terminations. http://www.qth.com/zj/ 73 Pete K4LDR on the Gulf of Mex Member of the Florida Contest Group (FCG) - visit our website at:
Hey Scott: I looked at ur diagram on ur 160m inverted "L" and it is similar to my own, except my vertical segment is only 31 feet and is suspended in a long leaf pine tree. That is the highest I can
Hey Bob: I think this may be what u are referring to. Here is a web site that specializes in Beverage antenna terminations. http://www.qth.com/zj/ 73 Pete K4LDR on the Gulf of Mex Member of the Flori
Greetings all: What is a YDDOG? Who is a YDDOG? No name or amateur call sign included on the first message where that appeared. 73 Pete K4LDR --Original Message-- From: K7LXC@aol.com <K7LXC@aol.com>
Greetings Joe and Fellow TTers: I have laying on-the-ground a pretty elderly Wilson three section tubular monopole crankup. The ID labels have disappeared and I don't know for sure what the model is
Hey Dan: Here is some info on the HD-73 rotator u were asking abt. I don't have a fax...sorry. On Rotor Terms 1 and 6 are motor field winding. CW & CCW - I don't know which is which Term 3 Motor comm
Hey Jim: Marine supply stores carry stainless steel thimbles (the teardrop shaped gizzies) for sailboat rigging; if that makes you more comfortable. 73 Pete K4LDR in Citrus County, FL on the Gulf of
Re: using someone else's land for amateur radio antennas (or anything else) without the land owner's permission. My conjecture is that all that funny stuff is not over just yet. I hope so, but......
Greetings Tower Talkians: I have gleaned much from the "repeat" and "everlasting" threads. Let them keep coming. Comment on the true/magnetic North dilemma......I agree with a couple of recent previo
"Cue 2 weeks and 200 mails of opprobrium." See, that's an example of one of the sterling attributes of this reflector. i.e. it teaches readers definitions of words they wouldn't learn on the street a
How about the one on bee stings? snip How much volume (of words) do you want? I kept bees a good long time. It's dirty but hearty work and paid better than engineering sararies 38 years ago. Look at
Bill- W4BSG said: 4. (most important to me) ITS FUNNY! snip -- I claim using the word declination. And I agree, it's been enjoyably funny. I am punchy from SS CW and need some levity medicine. I'll b
Hey All: I initially used the term magnetic declination in an early post on the subject. Someone corrected my usage to "deviation". The corrector was wrong as it related to what I was describing. On
Hey Bill N4ZI and others interested in 1/2 and 3/4 hardline coax PL259s: AD4KT Charlie Davis, Woodland Creek Antennas in Jefferson, GA manufactures PL259 coax plugs for 1/2 and 3/4 inch hardline. He
The following email got transmitted before I finished typing the sig. 73 Pete K4LDR Citrus County, FL on the Gulf of Mexico --Original Message-- From: Peter J. F. Shaw <k4ldr@sunco.com> To: Bill Madd
Greetings Dirk and TTalkians: Went in doubt abt a web site address, try http://www.alumnatower.com And that is precisely where Alumna is found. The search engines rapidly turn up that URL that as wel
Greetings Tower-Talkians: Several have commented on the horiz FW loop as an effective cloud warmer. I concur. I use an 80 meter horiz FW loop (abt 255 ft total) fed with 160 ft of 450 ohm ladder line
Hey there Towertalkians: The information regarding Bentonite is most interesting. The part about expanding rang-a-bell, big time. The crew that drilled my 330 foot water well into the Florida sugar s