I learned the following trick from a guy at work that installs and maintains all of our antenna systems: 1) Wrap the connector with standard electrical tape GOOEY SIDE OUT. This way you don't gunk up
Not bad ideas, but heat and glue guns aren't the most convenient things to use when you're up the tower :-) _______________________________________________ ___________________________________________
55 ft seems to be a common number all around the country. It's probably just like boilerplate zoning ordinances and boilerplate CC&Rs. Someone picked that number long ago and others just followed sui
You could do what KY6LA did. He designed circuitry to automatically lower his tubular crankup when the windspeed is above a certain threshold. I believe it was a requirement for his building permit s
You certainly didn't get that from me. As I said, mine came on time and took less than 6 months from the time I first talked to Karl about my tower plans until the time it arrived at my door. Where d
And most of those "I want it NOW people" also won't tolerate lower quality. I work for a very succesful fabless semiconductor company and we deal with this all the time. The consant pressure from cus
I would think that a Buddipole would be your best bet. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com
It's just not that simple. PRB-1 was written in a way that leaves lots of things to interpretation. The root of the problem is the term "reasonable". "Reasonable" is not an absolute term. It means di
It does exist, but you're not likely to get the answer you want there anyway. I'm reasonably certain they will tell you that the city of Palmdale is overstepping their bounds and the only recourse is
When I was in high school I knew a ham that worked at the local tv transmitter site. He took me on a tour once. There was a 996 ft. tall tower next to the transmitter building. This was in Michigan:
I have a Force 12 LPT1242. I used it for a couple of years at my previous QTH. It's now used every Field Day. You can crank it up and down with a reasonably high torque power drill. I went through 3
A co-worker asked me today why hams use horizontally polarized yagi's instead of vertically polarized. Am I correct that it has to do with ground reflection gain? ____________________________________
I've always thought this as well, but others have claimed this is not true. Can anyone explain why this is the case? Yes, my anecdotal evidence supports this. I've done side-by-side comparisons of a
OK, let's ignore the fact that I said "horizontally polarized". My co-worker assumed my antenna is "horizontally polarized" because it is physically oriented that way. Regardless, I'm sure everyone u
My antenna is less than 200 feet from 115KV lines. I've never heard a peep out of those lines except when it rains. The corona noise during the rain is pretty loud. Fortunately, it doesn't rain that
I'm trying to remote my home station. The last piece of the puzzle for (non-QRO) operation is the rotator. I've tried several things to get RS-232 control of my M-Squared rotator to work, but so far
Yes, I'm aware of that. I have hyperterm set up for 8-N-1. I've tried that combination with nearly every baud rate possible, but still nothing. _______________________________________________ _______
As I mentioned in the original e-mail: this port was known to work properly with other applications in the past. I will double-check when I get home to make sure that is still the case. I am not usin
That's a good point, however, the rotator controller does not respond to the commands I send it through hyperterm. Clearly, I could have entered the wrong commands, but the mere fact that I can't get
Thanks for all the suggestions. I don't know what I did to fix it, but...it's working with Hyperterm now. I disconnected the cable, tried it on another port, put it back, and it's working now. Wish I