Between the ice and wind at some qths like mine, laying cable in loops on a top plate is just begging to have it catch on a corner or be frozen in place and tear. It is usually a bad idea for anyone
For various terrain and property line related reasons I have had to go shorter than and significantly longer than the 80% with specific legs of my two towers, as short as 65% and as long as 130%. Thi
My guys have been battle tested through two hurricanes and two direct hit tornadoes and countless ice and wind storms and violent T-storms and Macrobursts. As far as I know, the wind gusts have not e
I have had difference experiences than Jim. When the rain static is horrible (at the level where is sounds like the drumming section in a large marching band ;-) the the top yagi is always the loudes
Hi Rich, Taking the worst case rain static situation very heavy rain for say, about 30 minutes, the Top antenna is ~ @ S9, the 2nd @ S6-7, the 3rd @ S3 and the bottom antenna quiet or almost quiet. P
Hi Rich, Ive never used a quad at my station or any type of vertically polarized antenna on the high bands, so I have no point of comparison between horizontal vs. vertical polarization with rain/sno
My personal experience is that anything under 100 is better and more easily served by a medium quality slingshot (Marksmen) with good quality bands and development of proficiency with it. I prefer a
Yes, thats EXACTLY how I learned why I needed to use the heavy glove. I once had a VERY swollen and painful knuckle from a similar experience to yours and it prevented me from doing a lot of things f
Rich, What is the length of the mast? How far above the thrust bearing is/are the antenna(s)? What is the typical wind speed before the T2X experiences slippage? 50 mph? 70 mph? 90 mph? 73 Bob KQ2M F
Hi Bud, There is a fairly simple way to address and change the balance point of a large antenna so that it is not an issue. Here is the brief version if you are interested we can talk further. On my
Simply put, antennas at a given height have MULTIPLE lobes at different wave angles of varying gain over flat ground over average soil. If you have anything other than flat ground and especially if y
Thats a REALLY presumptuous response on your part Joe. I have spent MONTHS of ACTUAL TIME time modeling antennas of all types over all types of terrain at multiple qths over the past 28 years with at
Your assertion that The one lobe per half wave in height is accurate unless one is on the side of a cliff or very substantial downslope is far too simplistic and not accurate. I have neither situatio
When I lived in an apartment in Farmingville, NY (Eastern Long Island), I placed my Butternut HF6V vertical near the top of a hill ~400 away and fed with 600 of RG8X. The slope was about 10 degrees d
Speaking now about HFTA and K6STIs YO programs, I wont go into the shortcomings of HFTA but rather how they were BOTH useful to me. HFTA was very useful for plotting the relative time of signals arri
They are putting it up before they have to deal with FCC and EU regs this way it is grandfathered in. :-) Bob KQ2M Good idea doing it before permits are required or they have HOA restrictions John KK
There is another limitation as well.... While K6STIs YO program allowed you to select from a list of stock antennas, or put in the actual measurements of your own, and THEN stack them, over ACTUAL te
What about an environmental impact study? :-) Bob KQ2M Do you think they did an HFTA study for the tower ? hihihi BobK6UJ Bob KQ2M Good idea doing it before permits are required or they have HOA rest
Hi Pete, I experience the same issues here. One of the things that I do is for higher stress ropes through trees, I switch from 3/16 to 1/4. 3/16 abrades relatively because only a portion of that dia
Here we go again. I stripped out the attachment and forwarded it to TT so that everyone can be warned. Blacklist the email address of the sender. 73 Bob KQ2M Dear, Attached is the recent invoice. Sin