TT'ians: I, too, am interested in loading a (future) tribander's boom on 40, so I read some QST articles referred to in previous threads on the subject. Apparently, the Yagi's Refl and Dir elements m
I, too, have a Gateway system (about 5 years old, so it's waaaaaaay too slow and almost out of disk space), but I have noise from the monitor. It disappears from the HF bands when I turn off the moni
My new Force 12 Catalog (thanks, Natan) has their new line of low profile, telescoping towers, one of which is shown attached to the back of a pickup/camper. -Gene Smar AD3F spelunk.sueno@cwix.com --
I've been using something called "Mor-Tite" as a coax sealant material. This stuff is actually used as rope putty for window seals around double-hung windows. It comes in a large roll of multiple par
TT: I've started using lengths of old garden hose cut to wrap most of the way around the tree trunk, branch, etc. (Got this idea from seeing saplings supported by guy wires through hose for the first
'Bout that time for the bee sting thread, isn't it? Gene Smar AD3F spelunk.sueno@cwix.com --Original Message-- From: K7LXC@aol.com <K7LXC@aol.com> To: GIG38@aol.com <GIG38@aol.com>; towertalk@contest
TT'ians: How 'bout anti-climb sections at the tower bases, and, maybe, barbed wire wrapped around the lower X feet of the metallic guys? Is this adeaute due-diligence against trespass and attractive
John: The only height-measuring trick I remember from the Boy Scouts is the following. Move some distance away from the tree (the illustration in The Manual of Scouting shows the scout far enough awa
ALL: FWIW. Today I got in the mail a catalog from Consolidated Plastics Company of Twinsburg, Ohio. It contains loads of containers, etc that might be useful for coil forms, housings for antenna load
TT: I just got back from local (DC area) Home Depot where I found they're now selling fall arrest harnesses and other hardware for residential (or other) construction. Intended application is to prev
Jeff: I recently received a BUD catalog at work (but I'm at home now.) They carry a variety of enclosures, but prices aren't mentioned. Check their web page (search Yahoo, etc.) -Gene Smar AD3F spelu
TT: I knew what I meant, but I didn't say it very well! The fall arrest lanyard with the Home Depot harness is about four feet long. It clips onto the harness and a rope-grabbing cam that rides up an
Pat (and all TT'ians): Read http://www.ncinsider.com//supreme/1995/1103/mickles.html and take heed about mixing belts and climbing straps from different manufacturers. -Gene Smar AD3F spelunk.sueno@m
Agreed. Put in what you can for a ground network and get on the band. It's a great challenge. I have a small (one-third acre) suburban lot and strung up an "L" for the recent 160 M contest. I layed s
Folks: I'm looking at a paper copy of F12's web page from 15 Feb 98. It introduces the WARC-7 and C-3SS. The latter's specs read, "The directivity on 12 meters is the same as 20-15-10. On 17 mtrs, th
Here's an idea: Use parasleeve-like DEs for a 3L array on 5 bands by mounting the last two sleeves (for 17 and 12) ABOVE AND BELOW the other three, using the mast for a support. Sort of like very clo
A good source of reprints on NVIS antennas is "Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Communication: Theory, Techniques and Validation" by Fiedler and Farmer. It's available from Worldradio Books, P.O. Box