I love those AB Chance anchors, I like burying them in concrete - you are left with that beautiful eye to anchor to. ...they have stayed reasonable over the years, I suspect, due to the incredible nu
my favorite discovery is using an automotive jack with screw type drive for boosting up a mast for rotor work. I saw one at a flea market and picked it up for I think 5 bucks... When standing atop th
Being a relative local, I would guess it to be a coax connector problem...check the integrity of your coax by using a dummy load, Ed. OJ than to high. the balun, on
A shack in Tahitis would fall victim only if you were beaming in that direction.... Promise you will not put this array up before next months Florida QSO Party...we are still behind on rainfall and t
I have heard rumours of a ham in the 4th call area who uses CB antenna configurations....he seems to do well. K4OJ produce. To: <towertalk@contesting.com> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
...some short english chick in a long black coat wanted to post the following: "You are the weakest link........... Goodbye" 31 days til the Florida QSO Party! Jim, K4OJ -- Original Message -- From:
Author: Jim White" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:42:49 -0500
80 year old climbing - more power to him....good attitude...but now he knows his limitations...and he had sense enough to employ a fall harness...yes his pride is undoubtedly hurt but I salute his pe
well put when you get to the level the multi multi competitors are at you need em all...a single QSO in that rare zone is enough for the single op - but the multi-multi's job is to work several of th
by the way - the ones that start running first are the ones that get those primo frequencies! OJ mediocrity as looking ________________________________________________________________________ Where d
please share this with the group this is interesting - one of the reasons I did not have a tribander on one of the towers is because of worry of it being unwillingly driven on one of the bands (20) t
have you actually built this or just modeled it - very impressive... k4oj ________________________________________________________________________ Where do you get ICE bandpass filters & beverage mat
main element will be plenty of manpower at the guy anchors....this is the costliest part of this type of installation...the time it takes to set the guys...I would make sure you had three crews, one
my biggest ten meter antenna is my lowest... have 4L @ 140 ft 4L @ 50 ft Tribander at 45 ft and 6L on 42 foot boom at 35 ft... The 6L consistently has been kicking buttock...am anxious to try a two y
recommend you contact the Rotor Doctor, FKA: C.A.T.S. - Craig has been very helpful to me in keeping an arsenal of CDE/Telex rotors for years...I highly recommend going with his quick change out plug
is K6NA still in the balun biz - he also makes a really primo one, too... think he calls himself Aztec RF k4oj ________________________________________________________________________ Where do you ge
BEWARE I bought several of those really long barrels (longer than a concrete block is thick) at a local hamfest from a traveling vendor, then installed them only to find they had opens! I would recom
great link - check it out! K4OJ beams were in use only had never been any reason However, it may not be have placed on my web ________________________________________________________________________
....someone was mentioning using wirewound potentiometers for terminating receiving antennas...not circuit board pots but bigguns...oldies like you see in the flea markets at hamfests...are these eas