I like the idea of a rotating tower. Question, with the rotating rings installed does that impede climbing the tower much? I'm about to start digging the holes for my 45g tower. A rotating tower woul
What size knock outs are used to make the holes for polyphaser bulkhead mounts or for regular bulkhead adapters? A source would be helpful also. I'm going to make an aluminum plate for my coax entran
I went back to my old remote location to remove my C3 yagi and T2X rotor so I can put it up at my new qth. I was concerned about getting the antenna apart. Thanks to using Penetrox the boom and eleme
I'm finally getting some dirt work done in the next day or two at my new place which will include holes/concrete for my 45g tower. I plan on using a pier pin install, so does it matter if the base is
Well my concrete guy solve my problem of going square or round on the base of the tower, he made it square, and over sized at that. He's going 4' square by 4' deep, that should hold up some tower. I
My new Iphone 4S has a compass application with GPS coordinates. Rich - N5ZC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Tow
I'm very close to finishing up my 80' tower. I'm going to install a swinging gate side mount at the 40' level. I'm looking at the IIX unit. Does anyone have enough experience with one (or another bra
I had this very quad back in the early 90's when I lived in NC. I sold it to a friend here in Texas when I decided to go with yagi's. The quad was/is a great antenna. The aluminum wire really shouldn
Where can the software be obtained? Is it downloadable or do you have to by the ARRL antenna book to get a copy? I'm in the middle of installing my tower and I'd like to run some numbers. Thanks Rich
Hello Group, I'm finalizing my tower project. Last thing to determine is how much of a load I can put on my mast. I have a 23' 4130 chrome molly mast which has a thickness of 3/16" vs a more traditio
I'm putting up my 80' rohn 45g tower Friday. I have 40' up and I have a crane coming over to lift the remaining 40' in one lift followed by antennas. I don't plan on using the tower as a loaded verti
Thanks for all the ideas guys. I had already purchased these to ground the coax at the top and bottom of the tower. http://www.dxengineering.com/Parts.asp?ID=3320&PLID=105&SecID=94&DeptID={DBD52E00-E
I finished my tower/antenna install Friday. 77' of 45g with 15' of mast out the top. I have a F12 D240 mounted 10' up the mast and a F12 C31 at about 1' up the mast. The swr is where they are suppose
Thanks for all the ideas. I should have climbed the tower this morning but I was busy with other things. The wind started to ramp up and is going to blow for the next couple days so I probably won't
Bill, I finished my new 80' tower a month ago. I have a F12 C31XR and F12 D240 2 element 40, so a similar setup to yours. I have a t2x but had not intention of using as I knew it wasn't enough. I'll
I've always been happy with F12 products. I've had a C3 and C4xl (which included a linear loaded 2 element 40). Both antennas survived a couple ice storms over the years. I just put up a C31xr and D2
I just installed one at 77' in March. Built it per specs and the swr curves were right where they were suppose to be with no adjustments. Works just great. I've been working everything with ease with
Bill, I put up a C31XR (that I purchased new from F12 in November) in March. I built it per specs and my swr is flat from band edge to band edge on 10, 15 and 20. I just measured the swr and the high
I have a F12 2 Element shorty 40 beam mounted on my mast at 87'. The swr is setup per the manual, 2.0:1 swr points are between 7.0 and 7.14 as expected. I would like to operate the beam on LSB as wel
I put up an 80' tower recently and used a crane. After we secured the guys the rigger went up the tower and detached the lift strap. We had the tower up, and antennas installed (C31XR and D240) in ju