The method I gravitated to after many years (and installs) normally involves no tillers or brackets, which I find a bit cumbersome to get out of the way once the antenna arrives at the tower. I use f
Look at it this way: the deflection reading on the Loos gauge due to stiffness is a constant, totally independent of tension. With no tension, 100% of the deflection is due to stiffness. As the tensi
Pete, The standoff brackets on commercial safety line systems generally hold the wire 4" or 5" from the tower leg. 73, Steve K8LX _______________________________________________ _____________________
Of course that's often not possible. We (my crew and I) regularly work on commercial towers that are only 30'-40' feet from 13KV. If the structure is safe and you know what you're doing, the danger i
AFAIK, the Mailman list software (used by Towertalk, CQ-Contest, and many other lists) defaults to this setting, while other packages default the other way. Of the dozen or so lists I subscribe to, i
Yep, and there are extremely asymmetric commercial towers which perhaps would serve to illustrate this - namely the Western Union so called H-Frame, which is basically two guyed towers with each towe
Which people would that be? -Steve K8LX _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.co
Depends on the situation - as has been pointed out, a short tower out on the back 40 doesn't cry out for quite the same engineering as one next to the house for example. My favorite is the guy who in
Current Hill Radio pricing (usually the lowest) is $735 for R65G 10' section, and $1034 for R65G 20' section. As a sanity check, they list R55G at $259. The 20' sections are a much better value, but
Here's a short version: http://alturl.com/5zxq -Steve K8LX -- Steve Maki _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTa
Meaning....that any further discussion will have zero value to the reflector at large? Or just to you? -Steve K8LX _______________________________________________ ____________________________________
I'm going to take a wild guess here - Stan has a pretty good idea about what a length of 55G or 65G can handle unsupported, plans to retract it except for mild weather contest weekends, plans an inst
And might facilitate mounting the top tower 'outside' of the base tower, which would look weird but make assembly and disassembly much easier. -Steve K8LX -- Steve Maki ______________________________
BTW, this method would resemble a 'track' style ginpole. In fact one of my ginpoles is actually made of 60' of Rohn 55, with a custom roosterhead on top and custom base unit. Mine is attached with sl
John, VXL7 cable needs "V7" connectors. The various Heliax cables have different center conductor diameters because of the different dielectric properties. I believe I have some V7 connectors if you
Yep, that works fine, or simply hold an 18" ruler across a face, and line up the 9" mark with the opposite leg. Of course the leg obscures the exact guy anchor spot, but by locating just to the left
Assuming you're talking about Andrew LDF4, the Andrew part numbers are: L44Z - splice L44P - UHF male L44U - UHF female I'm not sure any of these are actually made anymore, but can be found in stock
My problem with N connectors is that they are fragile mechanically. They're OK if installed carefully and always mated with their female counterpart by someone who cares (hey, this is getting poetic)
Well, once they decided to use the screw chain links, they needed something that would fit into them, which the thimbles would not do. This part of the install was not planned very well, but the ring
The safety wire is really to combat vandalism and possibly vibration induced unwinding of the turnbuckle. They are usually threaded through the turnbuckle and the ends connected to each other with a