okay Lee, thanks for the report. It may turn out that it doesn't matter that much. I will ask the broadcast engineers also. I believe the practice, when hanging a wire skirt for an AM on a grounded F
Sling shots and bow/arrows sound great if you have the room. Those of us in built up areas in towns with small lots face other problems: lots of houses with big windows that seem to have a magnetic a
Got a question for crank-up owners: Do you crank up your towers only when you are operating, i.e. 95% of the time they are nested and only go up when you turn on the rig and start looking for a qso,
hi everyone, thaks for all the email about my crank-up questions--i rx so many i may not have time to answer each one individually but tnx vy much all the same. part of my reason for asking is that i
It has some credibility to it. Years ago my employer used trained ferrets to clean out our beam pipes. For more on that see here: http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html rob / k5uj _____________________
Heard on news this morning that San Francisco area got hit with hurricane force winds, gusting to 100 mph. Any SF W6s on the reflector care to report on how their ant. farms came through (or didn't)?
tnx for the reports all, & glad to hear the ham damage wasn't worse than it was. 73 rob / k5uj I drove by the crane site this AM...it right on a major road to I-280. The crane is boom and truss type,
Towertalk folks: Today's Wall St. Journal carried news that home insurance rates are going to rise due to the reeling insurance industry following last year's hurricanes and an expected active 2006 s
Those of you who remember the immortal Don Wallace, W6AM, will be interested in getting the May issue of Harper's Magazine. In it, Don's grandson, Don Wallace, remembers his grandfather's amateur rad
dave, whatever these masts do, they are intended to be guyed at each level. They are built to pretty much hold a tv antenna and maybe a very small rotator and that's about it. That doesn't mean they
the following is a report I posted to a broadcast list in March. Can't remember if I sent it to tower talk also, but in case I did not, here it is.... Synopsis taken from today's [March 16, 2006] wal
LJ, It's called being a self-centered moron. There's nothing to understand. <<<I really don't understand people who move to places where there are established businesses, entertainment facilities, ra
Last year I heard from a professional tower rigger over in Indana who said that when he has a new member of his crew, he takes him over to the one aluminum tower they have a contract to work on. It's
As a vertical Titan DX is up to par on 20, 17 and maybe 15. Not too good on 10 and probably 12. useable on 40 but you'd be better off with a 1/4 w. base fed pipe and some radials. on 80 it's pretty b
If you string out the radials for your Titan, it would be interesting to do an A/B test, With Radials and Without them, and report back here. I for one would sure be interested in the results as I ha
It depends on whether or not you either bury them, lay them flat on the ground or elevate them a significant distance in terms of wavelength. If you bury them or lay them on the ground the 40 meter 1
the davis RF price for #16 looks pretty good by current pricing however I am a bit leery of the physical robustness of #16. WOR reportedly tried aluminum at one time and it didn't work out for some r
Interesting article on hot tower maintenance here: http://beradio.com/mag/radio_tower_maintenance/index.html Asked some broadcasters about this--the answer I received was to tack weld the sections to
and it's Andrew Corporation (as in Andrew Heliax) NOT Andrews--Andrews Heliax doesn't exist. oh yeah, that transceiver or transmitter rx combo in ur shack is a RIG; not a "radio"....a radio is the th
I bought a Voyager for 160 m. Before I put it up, some people I trusted advised me to put up an inverted L instead. That I did, and sold the Voyager to a friend, new in box for about 1/2 what I paid