Cliff, You have several good suggestions. A few comments from here: Pumping Concrete - not necessarily an option. I live about an hours drive North from Boston, and no one pumps concrete here - no on
Well. I do think (rather strongly) that Cushcraft should consider getting out of the amateur business - they simply don't seem to care, and (from my experience) most antennas have serious probs (miss
I keep hearing that the rebar in a tower base shouldn't stick out of the concrete - is this really true (and why?) My local rental/sales place for chainsaws, cement mixers, tractors and other tower b
This is wonderful to hear!!!! They are local (I'll drive by their front door tonite) - and I wish them the best. Although I met some fine people, my wife maintains a strict "No more Cushcraft" rule -
After all the response generated the the recent tribander query . . . Who has preferences on Monobanders, which will be (eventually) stacked?? I'm currently considering: M-Squared: there new UPS ship
I'm setting up an Ameritron RCS-8V WAY out in the woods - about 400-500 feet away. What type of control cable is recommended??. I guess the question is: "Do I need a rotor quality cable or not??" Not
Firstly, sorry about the spurious messages - technical problems :) The consensus is: It doesn't matter, you can use thin wire to control the RCS-8V, like 20-26 AWG Wire. I'm buying a 1000 foot spool
Thanks to all that responded on my query on monobanders. Eventually I hope to have stacks for 10/15/20 First, some general comments, then the votes with comments hopefully not taken out of context. "
I have an X9 - love it. EXCEPT: The SWR is screwy - varies with rain I think. And the antenna is at 100 feet. Bummer Three yagis bought from Cushcraft - three screwups. Each yagi had either missing p
Well, I bought three Cushcraft yagis - NONE OF THE ANTENNAS WORKED OUT OF THE BOX!!!! Missing parts, wrong parts, parts that didn't fit with each other, etc And I'm not mentioning numerous trips to t
A fairly easy one is to make it a two wire beverage reversible that you can use NE or SW. My two wire beverages are spaced 12" and I use a single coax and Ameritron switch box. I've got beverages NE,