I really don't understand, quite, how to protect myself from lightning coming down the various wires. I'm sure this will be crushingly obvious to someone, but I'm clearly missing something. I'll have
Thanks to all. This is the sort of stuff I'm looking for; happy if you know of something else, too. I am looking to operate remotely at some point, so this sort of MOV surge protection looks like par
I have seen this very thing done. Basically, you need some sort of extender (if you're talking about US Tower, they sell such a device) so that the summit of the inverted V clears the tower sections.
If you're worried about wind, then take another look at the W0IBM solution. The tubes were such that the weights and ropes were enclosed. At max height, most of the rope was exposed, but the weights
A colleague who has a tower similar to my HDX 572 (finally being delivered tomorrow) says his tilt over is substantially eased by having a little bit of grease on the bottom bolt of the tower that be
Slowly, but surely, my tower project is making progress. Got a lot in place or will shortly finish. Tower is mounted, grounding in place, A/C power. It's getting real. Now it is time to consider a ho
OK, I must not have been clear on this, because multiple people responded in a way I didn't expect. I have the coax stand-off arms that come with the tower. The question is exactly how to use the arm
I had very good results on 80 with an HF2V and an extensive ground radial system in Minnesota. Got a lot of 80 DX, including zone 23 (supposedly the hardest for WAZ on 80). Did not get all zones, tho
Remember that my excellent results were in Minnesota, not Arizona where I now am. I don't know whether I've solved the Arizona part; that experiment is coming! This reference, though: http://w4rnl.ne
As many of you may remember, I have this (still) extended adventure going to put up my tower (a US Tower HDX 572MD). The tower is actually standing up, but, given I can only work on it during weekend
One thing that US Towers "leaves to you, the consumer" is designing some sort of gadget to receive the tower's weight when it tilts over. I don't think there is a standard term, so I have started cal
Wow, I've received a bunch of _very_ ingenious answers, but as they were mostly private, I won't post them. Still, it suggests some added clarifications: 1. As I live in Arizona, there is a summer 'm
In my unfortunately never ending tower project, I have reached a temporary impasse. I have become enamored (and my wife even more so) with the NN4ZZ tilt plate. She likes the idea of all the tower wo
OK, I ordered the Force 12 6BA today and not the Steppir. For those not keeping up with the many twists and turns, I finally decided on my original choice from way back when after carefully looking a
OK, I am on the home stretch here, as far as my new tower's grounding system goes, but now what do I do? I have a properly Cadwelded ring around the tower, six buried ground rods, and a conection bac
How do you do a thust bearing on a push up pole? Curious as I may have the same problem someday; I have a pushup as well as my tower. Larry Wo0Z _______________________________________________ ______
Latest progress in the never-ending soap opera that is my antenna project. Can anyone suggest how I might expedite progress on the remote head and M2 rotor projects? But, I'm getting ahead of myself.
Yes, I agree. Discard that puppy and maybe deal with your vendor for a replacement. Why should you cover for this? When I had a professional do my Cadwelds, one or two of them didn't ignite and that
I had a lot of difficulty getting started on tilting over my tower. Before I installed the tower, I checked out the base and the contractor did an excellent job. The thing was stone cold level. I hav
But where do you put the lever? I don't like the place I picked. I want to make very sure I don't damage the tower doing the prying. Larry Wo0Z _______________________________________________ _______