And how would you know? My junk box includes a lot of small diameter short coax jumpers with a male on one end and a female on the other - I have to think these are probably "iffy" Chinese products.
I think if I were in charge I'd require a setback of 50% of the height of the tower or the distance to an occupied structure on the adjacent property, whichever is larger. 73, Pete N4ZR I think ham r
Oh well, it was pretty utopian. A ham I know fought a long legal battle against a neighbor who claimed the setback should be the total of the tower height plus half the longest horizontal element of
I'm with Steve. I got a neighbor to build me one (he was a talented fabricator) after making sure that my second C-3E had enough inter-element clearance to swing fully. Put pieces of radiator hose
Oh, one further thought - all HOAs are not created equal. I moved into a 60-year-old neighborhood, was told there was no HOA before buying, only to discover shortly thereafter that one exists, and t
I have a 3-element 6-meter yagi that I would like to put above the C-3E on my B-577. I think probably the smart way to do this would be to mount it on a 5-6 foot mast that is the right size to drop
Frankly, I don't think there's any need - the author of the Wikipedia article clearly was European (probably British) and apparently their usage and ours are different. I have added a note to the Wi
Curious, indeed. Take a look at the FCC regs on *towers*. I tried yesterday to put an end to this debate by adding a note to the Wikipedia article, explaining that US and European usages are opposi
What's the old joke - the US and UK are divided by a common language? I could go with Antenna Structures as capturing both/all. 73, Pete N4ZR On 5/30/2023 9:23 AM, Lux, Jim wrote: On 5/30/23 5:51 AM
Fortunately my 60-year-old subdivision's covenants, which forbid any "structures" without approval, are similarly moribund because of not being enforced. In any case, my defense of my 5-year-old AB-
I used to live in a doubly-HOA'd place (Reston, VA) and got by for about 20 years on stealth antennas, because the HOA's covenants didn't even allow TV antennas. A few years before we left there, I
I need some good quality stainless U-bolts for 2" OD tubing, preferably the type with the bolt plate that itself fits the tubing OD, rather the simple flat plates sold by local hardware stores. I hav
Several people have suggested DXE, and not finding what I needed elsewhere, I went through DXE's ordering process. Shipping and handling would have been more than the price of the single u-bolt clam
I am refurbishing on old Cushcraft 6M beam, which uses a gamma match with plastic tubing of some sort as the dielectric in the matching capacitor. I am getting some quite anomalous readings with my
I am planning to put a 3-element 6-meter yagi 6 feet above a C-3E tribander, which in turn is supported by a Yaesu G-1000DXA rotator on the top of an AB-577 tower. An engineer ham friend has raised
Another good new option is an outfit called Metal Supermarkets, which has locations in many major cities (but unfortunately, the closest one to Rich is in Oklahoma City). Their Baltimore location cu
FWIW, you might look for references to "omega matching" a shunt fed tower - I found a straight gamma feed of my 97-foot Rohn 25 awkward - with the omega match using a pair of 300-pf transmitting capa
I have a C-3E tribander on an AB-577 "rocket launcher." I also have a 3-element 6-meter yagi that I was planning to mount 6 feet above the Yaesu rotator at the top of the 577, but was deterred by co
That's true, Joe - the thing that concerned people was the 6-foot lever arm above the tri-bander, even though the antenna mounted at the top of it is quite small. 73, Pete N4ZR Yaesu show a mast bear
I'm looking for a 4-pin panel mount connector that doesn't require multiple turns to secure the plug in the jack. I'd prefer one of the quarter or half-turn type, to facilitate disconnecting my ante