Is the belt intended to go around the antenna or around the climber? I've been accumulating safety harness, etc. (for my own use, all DBI/Sala brand, some of them brand new) purchased on ebay. 73 Ala
But this stuff surely isn't anything like as strong as the $20/ft. Chrome-Moly stuff they sell to support an HF Yagi 15ft. above the top of the 60ft. tower. It may work well as a guyed antenna suppor
Well, *I* am planning to have only about 9 feet of mast extending beyond the top of my tower. The Township Code permits 70 feet, so I will use a 60-foot tower, plus the 9-foot mast extension, on whic
I have bought but not yet used some of the U-shaped copper-plated wire things that they use for pipe supports. As supplied, they have bent-over ends so that they can be hammered into the face of a jo
I understand that tomorrow (Thursday) the FCC is to consider communications in light of Hurricane Katrina: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-260918A1.pdf but the location has been
Oops! Immediately after I sent the previous message to the reflector I went to my Inbox and found a response from the FCC informing me that the email address I had used (which had been used by anothe
I don't *think* regular LMR400 is flexible enough for the rotator-to-tower loop. But I would be inclined to use Davis RF's Bury-Flex in place of LMR400UF: it's cheaper even than regular LMR400 and ha
If nobody else has any to sell you, see if one of these is what you need: http://www.normsfab.com/housebracket.htm I've never bought any of his stuff. All I know is that he shows up (with samples) at
On 09/23/05 04:05 pm Tom Rauch tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup: Finding the parts to build a state-of-the-art transmitter or receiver would be the challenge, a
Perhaps the third try will be successful. This bill seeks to extend the provisions of PRB-1 to Home Owners' Associations and CC&Rs. IOW, reasonable accommodation must be made for Amateur Radio antenn
BUT note that this '"Bonding connection" between the green wire blocks and the neutral blocks' is removable and *must be* removed if the panel is used as a subpanel -- again, so that the only connect
On 10/14/05 11:59 pm Tom Rauch tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup: How important is it for that perimeter ground wire to be buried? You didn't mention it. And doe
On 10/16/05 07:14 pm Bob Smith tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup: If an HOA can have a rule against flying the US flag ad prevail in court against a violator, su
Or you could just leave it grounded and shunt-feed it, couldn't you? 73 Alan NV8A On 11/01/05 10:58 pm david oneill tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup: __________
Polyphaser sells expensive kits for grounding the coax: hefty semicircular hunks of copper that are clamped around the coax shield after removing its outer covering, then grounded to the tower by wid
I must be getting old, Gene. I looked back and saw that I had already marked that previous message of yours for further attention but then forgot that the subject had been raised at all. 73 Alan NV8A
Is the wind zone information available other than by buying the whole Standard? 73 Alan NV8A On 11/19/05 11:11 am donovanf@starpower.net tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of
More ground rods, thicker conductors: http://www.mikeholt.com/newsletters.php?action=display&letterID=86 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "
The home-improvement stores sell water-jet fittings that you attach to rigid plastic water pipe and blast a hole under your walkway. It's intended to allow you to run your sprinkler lines under the w
It's been this way for a year or more. Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http:/