Force 12 6BA is also a candidate, though they have so many ways of labeling things it may be the same antenna. It lacks 30 meters, but has the rest. Larry Wo0Z _______________________________________
Yeah, any sentence that starts with "messing with a tower foundation" is likely to end with me saying "see a professional." My unmodified tower base is overengineered and I know it, but at least I kn
Well, on the commercial side, I've seen Force 12 Sigma vertical dipoles used with success (esp on the higher bands) in field day settings. I think the real issue is available supports. A fifty foot t
I used these successfully in Minnesota on 64 radials (beats the "sodbusting" of burying radials by miles). Used the DX engineering "plate" as a connector. I got my staples at Menards. My mower only m
Buy Steve's book. It will pay for itself many times over. Mistakes in this area are expensive and even with the book, you'll make some. But, you'll make fewer and cheaper mistakes if you read the boo
I'm struggling with my remote control (aka "remote head") on my tower. I have yet to raise it and it's now a real issue. Here's the thing: I had carefully (or so I thought) wired from the tower to th
OK, a brief update. It does appear that I had managed to make the short myself with inadequate ratings on my MOVs. I rewired things so that the MOVs were out of the circuit and it kind of works. The
I found this exchange very useful, actually. Besides, somebody had a question, their google-fu failed them and they got fixed up. Don't see the problem here. Furthermore, speaking as someone who has
Thanks very much to Jerry, K0FC, it appears that my tower problems may be coming to an end. (Without him, it's safe to say nothing much would have happened this weekend). Jerry and I met at a local M
In my case, it was relatively easy. I used 4 inch pipe and I installed everything at one "go". No grease. The reason? I managed to install the cables at the same time the pipe was laid. I managed to
So, exactly how do you "critter proof" the openings? Larry Wo0Z _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contes
To me, it's a no brainer. 150 dollars to almost certainly lengthen the life of a much more costly rotor? Let's suppose the rotor's specs will take that compressive weight. Wouldn't logic indicate tha
As some of you might remember, I am having a nearly endless (or so it seems) saga with my tower in terms of getting it up and going. Today, however, major progress and no mistake. 1. The Force 12 6BA
Can someone open this thing up? I'd very much like to have this competently reverse-engineered. Reason being that I'd like to replace it with computer-controlled relays and I'd like to know 1) how it
Probably can be made to work. You might check out how much info is available on the Force 12 6BA. Something similar is going on there; they put a 2 element 40m Yagi antenna (with its own feedline) on
Rescue Tape is recommended here in Arizona, but I have so far had trouble getting it to seal as well. It self-seals very nicely. The problem is sealing to (e.g.) the coax itself or whatever other sur
No doubt. But, stretching, IME so far anyway, is never as good as firm contact of a putty. Maybe practice makes perfect here, but I've not had the same degree of confidence in the water-tightness, es
As long as we're talking OCF antennas, I've always found this an interesting source as far as explaining them: http://www.w8ji.com/windom_off_center_fed.htm Larry Wo0Z _______________________________
Well, once you "hit the wall" at maybe 150 countries or so, (or don't get the contest scores you want), you start to raise your standards. That inevitably increases your contact with theory and overr
I've lived in suburban environments, so I know all about the noise. I was also, for a variety of reasons, restricted to simpler antennas for many years in such a place. The amount of noise in such an