Hi Scott, I had some 35G at one time. The legs of the tower are of the same diameter as 25G but the spacing is a bit wider. It will not mate with 25G tower. I had to fabricate a custom base for it. T
Plus, you need to take into account what kind of antennas he's going to have on the tower (i.e. antennas for 50Mhz and above). You might be able to justify some of the "risks" so you can minimize the
I've got a 70' Rohn 25G tower with a tilt over base. Let's just say, I won't do that again! Very scarry when that thing is going up. The tower looks like it's about to buckle at about the 45 degree a
I have an Orion 2800PDC. Excellent rotor! Installation is pretty straightforward. The holes on a standard Rohn rotor plate will not line up so be prepared to drill new ones. Or you could buy a rotor
http://thewireman.com/rotorp.html He doesn't have stuff with the exact specs that you are wanting but I bet that part # 304 or 305 would work. 73 Matt W5LL -- Original Message -- From: "Alan NV8A (ex
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Al, I'm using RG58 on a 250' run to my Orion 2800 and have had no problems. I couldn't tell you about all the technical aspects of the coax when used this way though as I'm sure others on the list ca
This thing would be super easy to homebrew... If you can't weld get a welding shop to make up the base. You could hand him one of the pics from the website to go by. Any welder should be able to dupl
Bob, I am in no way a expert on this nor an engineer but I do easily have 25 sq ft. of antenna (5el 20m monobander on a 48' boom and a 9 el 6m monobander on a 35' boom) on my 80' Rohn 45 and haven't
I think he meant put a temporary guy on the mast so you don't bend the heck out of it 73 Matt W5LL -- Original Message -- From: "Fred Mott" <ab8ah@earthlink.net> To: <k1ttt@k1ttt.net>; "'Towertalk'"
Try Media Player Classic... You probably don't have a mpg2 codec for Windows Media Player http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ 73 Matt W5LL I downloaded the file from the W5LL site and it won'
Try Media Player Classic if you can't get it to play in Windows Media Player http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ 73 Matt W5LL I couldn't run the video either! Bill K4XS ______________________
Isn't the formula pi * radius(squared) * the number of turns what you need? Been a long time since I did any geometry... Matt _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscompute
Yeah, but what would be the fun in that! LOL 73 Matt W5LL -- Original Message -- From: "W7RY" <w7ry@centurytel.net> To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:32 PM Subject: Re
Having never worked with solid copper strapping before is it coated with anything to keep it from oxidizing while out in the elements? If not, should it be? I've always used stranded insulated copper
How newer? My orion is a year old and it generates noise. Matt W5LL -- Original Message -- From: "Jim Idelson" <k1ir@designet.com> To: "TowerTalk Post" <towertalk@contesting.com> Sent: Wednesday, Nov
When you say HF and VHF what VHF bands are you talking about specifically? 73 Matt W5LL -- Original Message -- From: <wf3h@comcast.net> To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006
Times Microwave has a nifty online calculator for their cable... http://www.timesmicrowave.com/cgi-bin/calculate.pl 73 Matt W5LL _______________________________________________ ______________________