Bill etal, I had a Pro-67C3 up for 15 years. It survived Texas wind season after season, radial ice up to 1" thick on more than one occasion, and more than one annual microburst with winds over 70 mp
I have seen the copper shield of FSJ-4 separate at one or more of the rings, making connections intermittent. No evidence of physical damage, but there were a lot of thermal cycles. The leading theor
Greetngs alol, Although not a direct comparison, I found a stash or this 123-1P-50 cable. Doe anyone have experience using their 123-1P-50 product for ham use? Specs are in the same ballpark, if not
Thanks Jim, The Dielectric is a STAR PE with air. I don't see a pressurization requirement, but after you pointed it the partial air dielectric I get it, at least for traditional outdoor use. The tub
Along these lines, I was wondering if anyone has noticed rain static on the larger horizontal loops some use on the lower bands? I recall having rain static (snow static) on my 80m dipole. Although i
Greetings, I have couple SSBUSB Mast mout PreAmps and a remote switch that took some serious hail hits. Hard enough that two were cracked and one hit opened a hole. I'm not sure they are PVC, or a co
Scott, The Mid-Tri uses a fair share of Nylocks. I'm not sure if antiseize has any issues with nylocks, or even if it would benefit from a locking compound. Personally when I built my JK WARC and JK
Indeed my US Tower has a long tube at the top for the radial bearing, but it also has a machined bearing sitting on top of the tube for holding the mast. I'm not sure if it is a ball bearing or a rol
Greetings, As I install my new tower, I was dropping some ground rods next to the base and acquired some #6 solid copper wire to make the connections (or so I thought). When I went to cut the wire I
Greetings, This wire was a barn find. It ws coiled up in the rafters for storage many years ago by an in-law. My guess is that it was up there for 40+ years. I just checked and the wire I have is not
Got it.. Thanks everyone... Mike K9MK This wire is fine , it is hard drawn Vs. soft drawn is all.. Use it and be glad you got for free i guess .. mac/mc w5mc _________________________________________
If you're not set on two beams as a requirement, there are several articals on adding 6M elements to a small tribander. The one I was thinking of was in QST not to far back. --Original Message-- From
Greetings Tower Sages... I had one of these on the top guy set of my 110' R45 tower. And I had torque arms on the lower two guy sets. My question is aside from twisting, does this change any of the w
Hi Gary, Earlier this year I bought the Hamplus AS-61WL, sold through DXE. My run from the shack to the top of the tower is LMR400 and close to 350' out and up. As a basic 6 position switc
Hi Chuck, Mine worked correctly after I set the proper rig type to the specific rig port. I have a K3 and F6700. I also found several errors relate to programming and configuration. But...
Hi Gary, I stapled mine and after the first rain everywhere the cow stepped on a radial it pulled the radial up and/or broke it. The I went back and did staples again and added a electric fence using
I was P&Z chairman in our town for many years. Code enforcement often consulted me on citations. In your case I think you have a good chance just telling them things are being repaired and will be re
I have the issue that Bob describes. Some 400' from shack to tower top. LDF-4 and LMR900 runs from the shack to the tower's junction box. Since I have power at the tower base, wireless solutions for
Greetings, Years back I acquired a Yaesu 2800 series rotor. IIRC the control cable was a pre-fabbed black jacketed PVC type cable. A local is selling a NOS/NIB G2800 and I noticed the control cable i
Hi John, Thanks for your inputs. I'm not familiar with materials identification so all I have to go on is that color. To your question I made the mistake of buying 200' RG8X for use on an 80m Vee cir