What windload and weight do you want on top of this tower? This should be mostly a matter of looking up the specs and picking from the "qualified" if you have those answers. I'm not even sure which "
You will almost certainly also have a well-levelled tower. That's worth something, too. My contractor gave me a dead level base for my 72 footer, a fact I appreciate every day. Larry Wo0Z ___________
I agree with N4ZR here. Find out what is required, especially of the base. It isn't just something to keep the tower from sliding around. It is the _foundation_ of the whole tower. The house bracket
In Arizona, it is positively routine for me to see cloud to ground strikes where there is no rain. Now, these do drop directly from clouds, but still, they are high enough up that (in Minnesota, at l
Not yet, but I plan to for my remote operation. I haven't done it, but it appears to be easy to replace the control boxes on units like this with relays which, in turn, trigger the RF relays in the s
I guess all those DXpedition shacks need to shut down, then. I would regard that as a great pity. DXing has to have people who aren't stateside or who live at least part time in places few to no oper
over on all of my awards. Nice for you. Please don't impose this rule on the rest of us. Many operating awards are, realistically, life time achievements and are meant to be. A lot of us do _not_ mov
My local club's repeater suggests otherwise. If you're the FCC, you have to consider more than HF. How is a typical repeater, put up by ham radio club XXX, different than this situation? For many clu
A small thing. Usually, in arrangements like this, there is a 90 degree angle to be negotiated. In my current shack, I actually have two accesses. I did 4 inch conduit for both so there is comfortabl
Hire a competent contractor. Here in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, we have exactly this problem (except they want a 5x5x8 foot hole). A good contractor can meet all of these requirements, including allow
It's cheaper, especially as there is a finite chance that "cheaper" here also means "no loss of life, especially your own". There's no law that says you aren't on or under the tower when the cable sn
I don't know about 160, but don't disparage 30 foot radials for 80 and 40 (and 30) on an HF2V in particular. I was restricted to that, put down 64 radials, and had great result in Minnesota (average
Jim, what's going on in that first picture and the video "next" to it? It looks like a comely young woman, dressed as a magician's assistant, is taking the entire "lightning" discharge through her fi
(Forward to the whole group). I agree with you, Jim, but to play devil's advocate a bit, maybe you plan for something that basically doesn't survive. Suppose you have a TV push up mast style design t
I'm extremely happy with my Force 12 6BA. If you drop off the 40 meter part of it, you still have a crackerjack antenna, I suppose. That would be the XR 5 (I have no experience on the XR 5 without th
I hear you. And contesters with stacked arrays agree with you. But, I remain suspicious that, on average, height wins out. This situation, after all, has one individual picking between one height or
I got a used KT-36XA and I believe it is still for sale. See: http://www.m2inc.com/index.php?ax=amateur&pg=40 WO7R _______________________________________________ ____________________________________
I use standoffs and, at least in the Sonoran dessert, they are at least "useful" if not "necessary". Since I usually bring my tower down "a ways" from the top when not there, there's slack cable arou
My US Tower first advised 90 days, but the eventually relented and told me 28. I think I waited six to eight weeks; don't remember now. Remember, though, that none of us are structural engineers. You
I would go further and say "don't be in a hurry". You're going to live with that tower for a lot of years. What's a couple more days? You're going to miss CQ WW CW whatever you do, so I can't think o