This is a very familiar story. We had the same military LP at the former Rockwell plant on Miraloma in Anaheim. Great ham and MARS station. Boeing bought out Rockwell and sold several buildings (the
Having just moved here in Las Vegas (Henderson area) for my retirement home from a CC&R environment in California I am anxious to get a tower up to get my beam back in the air that has been resting i
Not sure if it is the best way but I use EMT electrical tubing for a mast. I get 10 ft sections that telescope inside each other and drill holes and use bolts to hold them together. Can be found at a
The cable guy came to my new house and drilled a hole thru the wall for the cable. I asked him to drill another for me to get my RG-213 into a spare bedroom/home office/ham shack. -- Original Message
In this situation, what is your opinion of a sloper using a SGC tuner at the top of the tower attached to the sloper wire with the tower acting as the counterpoise for the sloper. I plan to do this a
Thanks for the info on your web site for your tower base. Having just moved to the Las Vegas suburbs to my retirement home away from the HOA and CC&R's I had in California I am ready to put up my tow
I believe you will find the fence is arcing (making a spark) to some object located too close to it. Trim back all vegetation, look for rocks, check for dirty, wet, insulators, etc., anything the fen
I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to please point me in the right direction to find the method of obtaining a Wind CALC (calculation) for a tower project to satisfy my Building Department I am
I was worried about that too when I moved from CA to the new QTH here in NV. Then the cable guy came to install a cable hook up in my home office/ham shack for my ISP connection. He just drilled a ho
Hi Bob, When I was flying USCG C-130's out of Kodiak it was in Alaska, not Alabama. When did they move south? 73 -- __________________________________________________________________________ Alan Zac
I recently moved from a HOA controlled area. At my old QTH, AFTER I moved in, and AFTER I put up a small tower and beam the HOA added a rules and regs restriction almost identical to what you show as
In putting up my tower I have learned the City Planner Dept. is a separate bureau from the City Building Dept. My understanding is that the Planner will tell you if, and what type, of tower you are a
But no good for DXpeditions. Even if tied up at a dock it would only count as a M/M operation. P.S. Want to pay the fuel bill for this thing?? -- _____________________________________________________
I agree he is on the main section attaching the pulley in order to pull up the next section. You would not be putting the pulley on the offset section, would you? I would like to know if they tilt ov
I am please with the service at U.S. Towers. I am dealing with Gary whose address is: "Gary Smith" <sales@ustower.com> Their website: http://www.ustower.com/ Nice call, were you part of the AH3D grou
Jim, Good info here. Question please. If a city Building Department is requiring your antenna tower project to be to code, can you request to study the code from one of their books? Reason I ask is I
Thanks for all the good info. I do have to have a NV wet stamp on the UST drawings. Their outside contracted PE provides their work to the sales guy at UST who in turn sells it to me for $250.00. At
I have run into a situation with my Building Dept in my attempts to get a building permit for a U.S. Towers MA-40. I have moved to a countryside QTH and wish to put up a small tower. The city buildin
Seems even the U.S. Coast Guard has to fight city hall. Never had that problem on Marcus, Kure, Wake, Iwo Jima, Yap, Palau, Kwaj, Johnston, etc. Coast Guard weighs options after communication tower p
Hi Jerry, I'm sure someone will have a more accurate or more technical answer to your question. I'd just like to pass on my personal experiences similar to yours. When I moved to this QTH I thought i