On 03/22/07 10:16 am Bert Almemo wrote: Thanks to all who responded with ideas and suggestions to my posting about fold over towers. It's a pitty there are no manufactures left making fold over tower
^^^^^ I thought Spong was an Episcopal bishop who made a fortune out of books denying almost everything he had vowed to uphold and teach. But perhaps he is good for something after all. :-) 73 Alan N
I had read of something like this before (or perhaps it was the same case) and asked the manager of a "senior housing complex" about it. He told me that among the conditions of the tax breaks they ge
I have at last* managed to get hold of a couple of Polyphaser UNI-KIT 2TT grounding kits to ground the coax shield to the tower at both top and bottom, but I am unsure what the grounding end is desig
Great, Dwayne. Thanks for the reply. Now I have to wait for it to stop snowing so I can get out and work on it. 73 Alan NV8A <snip> _______________________________________________ ___________________
Yours must be like mine. I've used the PreLube stuff from Champion, and everything seems to work fine: no slippage that I can detect. 73 Alan NV8A <snip> _____________________________________________
Davis RF sells those (www.davisrf.com), or you could try ebay: I've seen allegedly new hardline offered there (although maybe not all 50 Ohm), but I've never bought any. 73 Alan NV8A ________________
You could try DavisRF (http://www.davisrf.com/). I don't know how their prices compare for Belden, but I bought my BuryFlex from them. 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ ___
The winch for the tilt-over mechanism on my US Tower HDX-555 was much quieter today (but just as hard work) when letting the cable out than it was on the previous occasions -- most recently about thr
You and I know about Faraday cages, but it might have been a hard sell for the first people to try it. I think I'd be more scared of crawling along those wires. 73 Alan NV8A _________________________
I don't have the docs. in front of me at the moment, but I thought they said to use automotive grease. Again, I thought they said "gear oil." I know that differential oil could be different, but whet
I do now have the docs. in front of me, and on the back of the page headed "Installation and Maintenance Instructions" which I received from UST in October 2006 are the following words: "Like anythin
From private correspondence I have received, it appears that UST no longer recommends using grease but has not yet updated its docs. 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ _____
I put up an HDX-555 + tilt-over to support a 3-el. SteppIR, but I was allowing for an upgrade to the 4-el. and to the 30/40 add-on. plus the addition of VHF/UHF antennas. This county may experience w
I've bought both genuine Kellems and clones, but not that large. I don't recall who had the genuine ones and who had the clones, but some of mine came from Crescent Electric (facilities in many -- bu
I've been thinking about the same thing, so please send your suggestions to the list instead of just to Rick. 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ ____________________________
I originally intended to put up a tower I would need to climb, and I even bought a safety harness to allow me to do so safely. But then my wife (now a ham too) persuaded me that I am too old for this
But if people *agree* to buy a property with restrictions...? I don't know when and where CC&Rs started, but ISTR that in Britain decades ago the purchaser of a property was not acquiring the rights
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No, you don't want to use pipe. Pipe bends too easily. What you want is tube. See the "tubing vs. pipe" thread; although the question concerned aluminum, similar principles apply to steel. 73 Alan NV