- 221. [TowerTalk] The Anger of Trees (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:37:05 -0600
- --Original Message-- From: Charles H. Harpole <harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> To: Press W Jones <n8ug@juno.com> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com> To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Dat
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00192.html (8,586 bytes)
- 222. [TowerTalk] Rotor Connector (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:13:32 -0600
- I have in my hands a package from C.A.T.S. It is the "quik connect". At some point in the past, I decided it would be beneficial to put a connector on. My rotor just returned from Telex and looks bra
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00435.html (8,671 bytes)
- 223. [TowerTalk] Connector for Rotor (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:54:09 -0600
- As soon as I can read it all and compile it, I will post a summary of the responses I have received from so many people about whether to install or not install the C.A.T.S. rotor connector. There's a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00491.html (8,311 bytes)
- 224. [TowerTalk] Cushcraft A3S add-on (A7430 (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:13:31 -0600
- Glenn, I installed the 40m add-on kit to my A3S (@70') a week or two before ARRL SS CW. Previously, I was (Still, I am) using a 40m inverted vee at 60 ft. I have run a few comparisons between the two
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00140.html (10,446 bytes)
- 225. [TowerTalk] old books (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:51:54 -0600
- Consider your local public or school libraries!! 73, Dale, KG5U --Original Message-- From: L. B. Cebik <cebik@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> To: Bruce Makas <k1my@nlis.net> Cc: antennas@qth.net <antennas@qth.ne
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00224.html (9,273 bytes)
- 226. [TowerTalk] Climbing Alone (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:33:59 -0600
- Good words, Dave! May I add something: 1. Be sure your are physically fit before climbing. Back in the spring, for one of my first climbs of the year I climbed the club's 80 ft tower. When I reached
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00267.html (9,644 bytes)
- 227. [TowerTalk] Climbing Alone (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 14:50:02 -0600
- Good idea. I use bicycle gloves, but they don't keep the warmth, but they do keep your palms off the cold hard steel. I wear my hiking boots when working on the tower. With their hard, firm soles, th
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00328.html (9,170 bytes)
- 228. [TowerTalk] RF & DC coupling/decoupling (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 01:03:37 -0600
- I have checked my resources here in the shack (ARRL Handbook and ARRL Antenna Handbook and beaucoup issues of old QST's) and find nothing to help me in my quest to the following question: What compon
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00446.html (8,099 bytes)
- 229. [TowerTalk] Radials, resonance and the MFJ259 (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:24:40 -0600
- --Original Message-- From: Mike Cotterman <mikeco@fwi.com> To: K7LXC <K7LXC@aol.com> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com> To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Date: Friday, December 19,
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00518.html (8,936 bytes)
- 230. [TowerTalk] VOA Antenna Farm in Ohio (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:10:27 -0600
- A week or two ago someone mentioned the OVA antennas being taken down near Dayton. The following is excerpted from: The ARRL Letter Vol. 16, No. 50 December 19, 1997 _________________________________
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00519.html (9,019 bytes)
- 231. Fw: [TowerTalk] VOA Antenna Farm in Ohio, part ii (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:50:01 -0600
- This is being sent to preclude responses, questions, and generally funny s-a remarks. make that "VOA" I'd like to blame spellcheck, but I'm the one who clicked on CHANGE instead of ADD. OVA was what
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00520.html (7,171 bytes)
- 232. [TowerTalk] DC Voltage Coupling/Decoupling to Coax Cable (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:58:42 -0600
- First, thanks to all who responded to my query about how coupling/decoupling DC voltages to coax cable works for them and how it is done. I received about a dozen interesting, educational and useful
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00521.html (8,033 bytes)
- 233. [TowerTalk] Stranded vs solid wire (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:10:48 -0600
- K4SB said it all with regards to getting a virus from opening an attachment. But, why would you NOT open an attachment from someone like K7LXC????? If you receive an attachment from someone you don't
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00598.html (8,178 bytes)
- 234. [TowerTalk] Rotor Shims (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:59:11 -0600
- During CQ WW CW, late Sunday afternoon, my rotor froze...with the antenna pointing at Europe. Nothing I could do on the ground could shake it loose. I checked all voltages and resistances and everyth
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00694.html (9,189 bytes)
- 235. [TowerTalk] baluns and wire antenna (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:23:54 -0600
- Charlie, What do you have in the way of aluminum at the top? There's a lot of influence given by the beam above the half-sloper. I had a TH6 at 70' and a half-sloper for 80 attached about 3' below it
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00714.html (8,924 bytes)
- 236. [TowerTalk] Does the JPS ANC-4 work? (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L. Martin)
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 17:07:53 -0600
- Over the years, I've found three doorbell transformers that have given me fits... At close proximity, even an portable AM radio will work. My 2m radio in the car registers on the S-meter (LED's) as
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00736.html (8,245 bytes)
- 237. [TowerTalk] Roof-peak mounting of Rohn 25G? (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin)
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 03:14:52 -0600
- Bill (et al), I forget now where I saw it, but a local ham 'fixed' his brake button such that he could not release the brake before releasing the left/right buttons. He drilled and countersunk a hole
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00067.html (7,703 bytes)
- 238. [TowerTalk] "Pre-install" Your Rotator (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin)
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 03:17:31 -0600
- Yup....don't know how it happened, since most of the streets in the subdivision are everything but n/s, e/w, but my house sits exactly facing north. The tower is right at the back eave of the house.
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00068.html (7,830 bytes)
- 239. [TowerTalk] Yagi gain (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin)
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 23:55:52 -0600
- Roger, You bring up an interesting point. Periodically, at different locations around the country, there is something called a mobile shoot-out. The mobile operators gather and run antenna tests with
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00144.html (9,592 bytes)
- 240. [TowerTalk] Cushcraft 40 meter Beam ??? (score: 1)
- Author: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin)
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 00:09:38 -0600
- <snip> It doesn't have to be a broadcast station, either. I was checking the Johnson Space Center ARC's 2m repeater antenna on the penthouse roof of the Project Administration building a few months a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00293.html (8,884 bytes)
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