Last week I posed a question to the list regarding the proper way to utilize a "tiller" while tramming large Yagis up the tower. This subject seems to have gotten a fair amount of air-time recently a
Does anyone happen to have a manual for the KLM 40M3 3 element 40M beam that I could get a scan, fax or photo copy of? Thanks, Bob K6ZZ _______________________________________________ _______________
Hi Folks, I now have a copy of the manual. Thanks for all the replies! 73, Bob K6ZZ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing l
I went up the tower yesterday to take down the Christmas lights and noticed something disturbing. I happed to notice that the boom to mast plate (stock 1/4" aluminum plate) on my KLM 40M4 had stress
The comments about the M2 Orion 2800 and Yaesu 2800 surprised me a bit. Is the Yaesu 2800 the better choice of the two for turning a Hygain 205CA and Cushcraft XM-240? I have Triex T-15 tower (larger
Has anyone built a switchable feed system for a full wave 80M delta loop that would allow feeding it 1/4 wave down from the apex for vertical polarization and also in the middle of the baseline for h
Hello Tower Talkers, For those of you using stacked 204BA's, what modifications did you make (if any) to the stock 204BA dimensions to make them better suited for stacking? There are a number of vari
I'm not sure if my version of YO (YO5) will do the job as described below. I've done the HFTA analysis and the elevation diversity attainable with stacked 20M beams at 100' and 50' is pretty substant
I do have older versions of AO and EZNEC so perhaps I'll give them a try to see how things look. My guys wires pretty much dictate allowable stacking distance if I want to be able to rotate the lower
Hello Folks, Are the IIX and Array Solutions swinging side mounts strong enough to handle a 204BA or 205CA? Are there manufacturers of these things off-the-shelf other than IIX or Array Solutions? Th
Hello TT'ers, How far above ground (poor to average quality ground) does an HF Yagi need to be before ground effects no longer significantly effect SWR measurements? Is there a good rule of thumb tha
Folks, What methods can be employed to avoid damaging Yagis used as top loading on shunt loaded towers? Apparently this is only an issue with Yagis having insulated driven elements? I've read referen
This is probably a shot in the dark, but is there a place in the US where I can buy replacement parts for a broken Create RC5B-3? I've sent an E-Mail to Creative Design in Japan asking the same quest
Thank you Tim, Tony, Wayne and others. I did get a direct reply today from Create along with PDF copies of the Instruction Manual (which I had) and a few other schematics. They were very helpful. I a
Folks, Posting on behalf of a local ham friend. He's looking for technical information (specs, drawings, installation instructions, etc) on the Rohn fold-over series of towers but the 25G tower in pa
I'm suprised there hasn't been much chatter on TT from folks converting their stock 402-CD or XM-240 over to the Moxon design published by W6NL. I wonder how many of them have been built and are in t
I concur. However, that wouldn't be as simple as it may appear. The are three ways to approach the project from what I can tell. The first is to biuld it from scratch without benefit of having a 402-
Folks, I've seen comments from people indicating that Hygain antenna products are poorer quality since MFJ took over Hygain. I have original Hygain Long John monobanders and the MFJ/Hygain versions a
Hi Chris, I wasn't aware that the "original" Hygain Long John monobanders changed between the 60's and the 80's or early 90's. Could you be referring to the Telrex monobanders (which were very beefy)
It really does sound like the best way to go. Can anyone suggest a source of decent quality flooded type shrink tube at a reasonable price? What sizes are best for sealing the back of coax connector