Considering a US Towers MA40 -- with Cushcraft A3S and AW3S beams attached.... Anyone had any expereinces with this tower? Can it hold both the Cushcraft antennas without guys? Sure would appreciate
Thanks, Mike! I'll have the tower on the ground-mount with the rotor underneath, rather than at the top for better stability and reliability (and my own piece of mind). A friend and I drove from Clev
The tower came with the non-cemented soil base -- about 6 feet long, fins like a cruise missile (I was surprised we weren't stopped and searched on our 14 hour drive back with it -- the previous owne
REALLY need a nice used MA40RB for the tower I found, guys... Who's got one? Bob Hinkle, KK8ZZ Solon, Ohio 44139 Grid: EN91gj _______________________________________________ _________________________
Well, about 4 years with the BigIR has been nothing but good contacts and trouble-free operation. Like any vertical, they work well with LOTS of radials (I think I put down 48) -- each 33 ft long and
I recently bought a very nice US Towers MA40 that came with a "ground base" -- the base, which looks like a MA40RB, goes about 5 feet into the ground. There's a small plate at the bottom, and 3 hefty
OK guys, I'll take a poke at this too.... As a long time ham and professional wildlife biologist, I can tell you from personal experience that tall communication towers are lethal to songbirds, and i
Perhaps an owl, Dennis? Bob Hinkle, KK8ZZ Solon, Ohio 44139 Grid: EN91gj Birds kill themselves in all ways... It will be roughly a million years before natural selection has selected birds that don't
Jeepers, Doug... Do you suppose that a yahoo tooling around the swamp on an ATV can slow down enough to find birds that might be 4-5 inches long and weigh 2-3 ounces? Sounds like a great job to have,
Ah ! It's not the RF that get's 'em, it's the physical collision with the tower. Sorry I wasn't clear on that. RF, R-schmeff, the more RF the better (when it's needed, at least) Bob Hinkle, KK8ZZ Sol
You certainly deserve a pass on that... Obviously you've created a great hunting perch for red-tails! But... Unless you get there first thing in the morning, the assorted mice, shrews, skunks, raccoo
Hi Dennis... I'm a wildlife biologist and ham... If the birds you see on the tower have short tails and gold-flecks against a black feather coat, they're probably starlings. If their tails are longer
I have for sale a real nice MA40 with the MA40RB rotor base and earth mount... No concrete needed if you've got a nice clay soil ! Also included are the tilt over accessory with winch so you can lowe
She be lookin' a tad rough, I'd say.... Bob Hinkle KK8ZZ Solon, OH _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@con
I've inherited a nice 100 foot piece of hard line with PL-259's on both ends. When it was taken down from a tower last summer, I found a pencil-end sized hole in it, and a sort of splice where ground
Well, I'm running Vista Home Premium (second cheapest version) with machines varying from an older IBM Thinkcentre Pentium 4 2.8 processor with 1 meg and the built-in video card to an HP with Duo Cor
Not much of a tower, but I get GREAT results with my Toyota Highlander, IC-7000 and a "Lil Tarheel II" mounted on the rear hatch with a K-400 mount. Have checked into the 7255 ECars 40 meter net almo