Connecting the rebar together and out of the top of the concrete as an addition to the ground system is called a ufer ground. This uses the conductivity of the damp concrete to couple to the soil. D
How do you connect to the rebar inside the concrete? Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contes
I had a 65 foot Rohn tower with a CL-33 tribander on the top at my home in Rockford. I took the tower down when I was moving and when I told my neighbors that I had taken the tower down they were sup
Nick, Can't you make some sort of splice/jumper piece made out of angle iron and u bolted across the bad sections to hold everything together so that you can get above the bad section and get the bea
Compared to the rusty cars that I used to weld up, welding on an open tower would seem to be a lot easier but then why weld when you can bolt it together. Mark N1UK _________________________________
My goodness for that amount of money why didn't you just buy yourself some farm land and build a house on it. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________
I have tell of people having good results setting a 40m 4 square inside an 80m 4 square, so I think that you will have good results. Mark N1UK G3ZZM _______________________________________________ __
Hi Scott, I was just looking at your pictures. I was wondering if it is necessary to have a form in the ground. Can you just use the sides of the hole as the form? Also in your case did you remove th
Thanks for the information Steve, Do you know anyone who does professional ham tower installations in the North Carolina area? 73's de Mark N1UK G3ZZM _______________________________________________
Is it true to say that 4:1 baluns are not choke baluns and are therefore more prone to overload damage? Mark N1UK G3ZZM _______________________________________________ _______________________________
I am wondering if you are having problems because you have a long run of control cable. Paralleling the control cable might be a useful experiment. If your voltage at the motor is really low will the
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Yes with enough engineering knowledge, time and money it is very possible. Maybe someone will design a driver box for long cable runs _______________________________________________ _________________
A friend of mine made Rohn 25 insulators for his 80m 4 square by turning down fiberglass rods Mark N1UK G3ZZM _______________________________________________ _________________________________________
What does he hope to gain by mounting the tribander vertically? Mark N1UK G3ZZM _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list
Is there a way of gauging the amount of rust on a tower leg - it is pretty scary to think that a bottom section that looks OK could be badly rusted on the inside and collapse on you. I don't like cli
Yes I can imagine the pain - I remember falling out of a tree when I was a kid - I will never forget how much it hurt - fortunately at that age I was pretty much undamaged but man it hurts when every
I am thinking that in this case the tower had some hidden corrosion of the lower leg/legs and also had a bad lower guy wire. All was OK with the 3 sets of guys holding everything. however when the re
To me having the antenna and the station at the same place is all part of it otherwise I might as well just make a cell phone call. Just my take on it - too each their own though Mark N1UK G3ZZM -- O
I guess keeping stock costs money and these companies can't afford that, so they produce to a back order these days. Mark N1UK G3ZZM _______________________________________________ __________________