Stan, K5GO said "At risk of purists saying absolutely not, if I were going to put up just 30 feet of 25G tower and didn't have all the proper materials to insulate the guy wires and guy it as would n
Hey - I have more towers than Mitch, and I didn't get a mention either...but that's okay. Relative to the far away from the shack discussion, I have 2 towers that are roughly 250 and 350ft away from
Congrats Douglas! The Concrete manuals say that concrete will reach 75% of its 28 day rated strength in 7 days. Almost 90% in 14 days. For tower building, 14 days is already overkill. 7 days is plent
Dw, I am an active contester and I welcome your QSO. No rules to worry about. Just give me a call. If you aren't sure about the exchange, no problem, I will walk you through. 73 Ed N1UR _____________
guys? Douglas, I think the tied off temp guys make is safe to climb and stack the third section for the permanent guys - unless its incredibly windy then I would probably wait until it got calmer. B
"His tower is only out 1.5 inches at 20 feet which would be 3.0 inches at 40 feet his final height. I think he should put guy lines on it, go to 40 feet, make sure the tower is straight (even at an 3
"Towers are very inprecise, so I agree that CO8DM's tower is likely not an issue. However, I am not sure why making a guy tower plumb is not easily achievable. I used a transit level to adjust my guy
Tom, The issue on optimized reflector and directors for passive vertical beams, is that the specific need of a certain resonant frequency for the 2 passive elements can be affected by the interaction
I assume that we are talking N6BV's HFTA software. There is no entry available for a vertically polarized antenna. It works FB vs my results on horizontally polarized antennas though. Ed N1UR _______
Its W2 Land, but who's counting. Very clean looking installations for sure. Congrats to the RHR team. And N5DX showed us what the station is capable of - congrats as well. The drone makes for a very
Kevin, Thanks for the clarification. What a fantastic set up that is! And great work in the contest! 73 Ed N1UR From: Kevin Stockton [mailto:aluminumtubing@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 9:
A few words about this relative to SO2R. You only need a full 6 x 2 if you have monoband antennas. If, for instance you have a tribander, a 40/80 vert, and an inv L on 160, then you only have a need
A couple of quick comments. Is all that work on restoring a 20 year old crank up tower actually worth it? Having experienced a total of 6 lightning strikes over 10 years with 2 - 85 foot tall structu
Guys, there is an RFI reflector. Can we take this ongoing dialog there please? Ed _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing lis
I believe every Power Utility is required by the FCC to have an available way of responding to RFI complaints. So you should have to do no more than call the regional office and ask for the engineeri
No one seems to like the Yaesu 2800. I have 2. One is turning a stack of big yagis (6el 15M on 45 ft boom and 4 el 20M on 34 ft boom). Its loafing with that load from what I can see. 8 years on the j
?Thanks for the input, but I don't think a Tailtwister is going to be adequate for my new antenna. It's got a 39' boom, 17 elements up to 48', and weights over 220 pounds.? To be comparative, I have
This company is not doing anything to impress me with these comments. As someone who has spent thousands on towers in the past and is planning to do so in the future (and I am sure I am not alone), I
What method are people using to model a tower connected directly to ground with a yagi on top? Are you checking the tower physically for resonance and using an equivalent tuned element in the model o
I have the Force 12 EF240X. This is the wire loaded elements that are about 45 ft long and a 24ft boom. I have tuned this antenna and have found the resonance (not the 1:1 SWR) changes pretty signifi