Sometimes simple antennas can drive you crazy when they don't work. I see no reason to move the center further from the tower. It's very likely that the guy wires are causing the problem, however I h
There's probably no degradation due to not using the hairpin. It only helps match the impedance of the antenna to your 50 ohm coax. I'm curious how a single hairpin works on a multiband antenna. I wo
3/8 diameter is pretty small for an HF element tip. Texas Towers only sells 6063-T832 tubing in that size. I'd use 6061-T6 aluminum which is a little stronger and more expensive. You can purchase fro
According to the contesting.com description: TowerTalk is for discussion of tower and HF antenna construction topics. TT members have lots of helpful information and are happy to share it. <snip> And
The original post was Caps for a KLM 160V, which is a vertical antenna. Where's the boom on this vertical? Which way is True North? 5 times thicker mean 5 times the thickness of the object being comp
Actually there were 24 recent posts concerning 500ft wire prices. I doubt your post was ignored, perhaps no one had an appropriate answer. Maybe the manufacture can make one for you? Gl, John <snip>
I would use a single piece of Belden 8267 RG-213 for this. It's durable, there would be fewer connections and it would have less that 0.5 dB loss. I am replacing a 90' length of RG8 water damaged coa
Why buy a clone when you can get the real thing for around $200 / section? All: I am looking to install a new 45G tower next summer and am inquiring about the clone manufacturers. Luckily, I have a c
There's a lot of information in the archives including nice summary by WE9V: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/1998-03/msg00209.html I purchased a house last year as a compromise h
I currently have 5 1032 rotors installed in Illinois and I've had numerous failures. I've lost a number of potentiometers due to lightning strikes and I've also experienced many failures when the wea
I believe that geo888@cs.com was a registered user of towertalk using an alias email address. The system administrator does not know what his alias was and therefore cannot delete him. I doubt he's s
I just tried blocking geo888@cs.com and I still got the error message because it came from MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com. So I guess you can either block the mailer-daemon which would block error messages fo
Interesting theory Brett. I own two Sixpaks and I've had similar problems with each, especially when using a Top Ten band decoder to control them. I felt the problem was there was not enough voltage
You really should find some software so that you can model your two element rather than guess. It's not as simple as just removing an element from a three element design. The heavy duty element sched
This sounds pretty shaky. I certainly wouldn't climb it. John KK9A I know I posted on this one before and I don't recommend more than 40 or 50 feet of freestanding 55. However..........One of the loc
I own a tower in Aruba that requires a lot of corrosion maintenance. I still haven't figured out a good way to remove rust, perhaps one of products that turn rust into a paintable surface is the answ
Or it could be moisture in the connector on the rotor. There are previous posts in the archives on the Yaesu connector boot not adequately sealing and causing indicator problems. http://lists.contest
I just bought a new Toshiba notebook computer and I loaded Brian Beezley's YO and AO antenna modeling programs into it. I have used these programs on a number of computers with excellent results, unt
He was able to re-subscribe and post his message. Apparently that has now changed so he cannot post any further - at least with that email address. If the reason is really related to a Champion Radio
The normal guy spacing for Rohn 65G is 50 to 60 feet so I believe one guy at 55' would meet their 90 MPH design. John KK9A Okay, it looks, then, as if Rohn 65 would do the job at 50' but wouldn't be