- 41. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Thu Feb 6 12:04:58 2003
- Hi John, Amphenol has made the 83-1SP with a silver-plated body for more than 40 years and it cost less than one dollar, and is available from their entire distribution channel, which is massive. In
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00109.html (15,944 bytes)
- 42. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Thu Feb 6 13:47:54 2003
- Tell your grad student friend to go look at the tables again. Silver is more conductive, both electrically and thermally, in every textbook of metallurgy and materials on the planet. -WB2WIK/6 "Succe
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00115.html (12,985 bytes)
- 43. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Thu Feb 6 13:51:21 2003
- Good point, George. I remember about paper bag outgassing from my ancient days of semiconductor product management, when many semi leads were silver plated and then stored in cardboard...didn't work
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00116.html (12,800 bytes)
- 44. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 11:15:53 2003
- The center conductor of 9913 fits a standard PL-259 center pin very well. It's #9.5AWG and the pin inside diameter is #9. I've never seen a PL-259 that would not accommodate the center conductor of 9
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00124.html (14,468 bytes)
- 45. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 12:23:00 2003
- Hi Mark, I think those are both rumors or wive's tails. I've used 9913 since it was introduced to the amateur market in 1983 and an ordinary PL-259 always fit it just fine. Better, in fact, than conv
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00126.html (10,811 bytes)
- 46. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 14:24:49 2003
- Tales indeed. Although wive's "tails" are more interesting to some of us.... "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill To: <towertalk@conte
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00132.html (9,814 bytes)
- 47. [TowerTalk] Balun for Carolina Windom 160 (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 14:32:01 2003
- Here's what I do: Take a 500 Ohm, 2W linear taper carbon potentiometer wired as a rheostat (center and one end terminal shorted together) and wire it across the "unknown" terminals of the balun using
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00133.html (9,237 bytes)
- 48. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 16:59:53 2003
- Hi Jos, I wouldn't expect to find PL-259's in an AMP catalog, since AMP doesn't make them. The original PL-259 foundry and still a very large supplier of PL-259's is AMPHENOL, which is a totally diff
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00140.html (14,181 bytes)
- 49. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 17:08:11 2003
- Well, Jos, "wives' tails" can be interesting, but if they're OLD wives' tails, maybe I'll just pass, and have a beer instead. -Steve "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00142.html (11,764 bytes)
- 50. [TowerTalk] Tower tip (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Mon Feb 10 11:44:54 2003
- Bring an HT up the tower with you, to talk to the guys below. Much better than screaming. And tell those guys below to wear hard hats. I almost got one (missed by inches) with a 13" crescent wrench t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00195.html (9,531 bytes)
- 51. [TowerTalk] Tower tip (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Mon Feb 10 12:39:35 2003
- [Steve Katz] If I were to use one of those (wireless headsets with VOX), I'm afraid the ground crew would have to listen to every profanity I utter on the way up, including diatribes on the family o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00201.html (11,803 bytes)
- 52. [TowerTalk] Tower tip (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Mon Feb 10 14:28:54 2003
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- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00210.html (9,884 bytes)
- 53. [FCG] Re: [TowerTalk] Tower tipS - really long (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Mon Feb 10 16:40:42 2003
- Here's one nobody said yet: If installing a new tower in an area requiring a permit, and not having a permit during the installation... ...find out exactly when the zoning or building code was drafte
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00218.html (9,824 bytes)
- 54. [FCG] Re: [TowerTalk] Tower tipS - really long (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Mon Feb 10 17:08:01 2003
- Hi Bob, Maybe, but I've never known anyone who went to jail for an undocumented tower installation. I've known a few who have had to take them down, though. -WB2WIK/6 "Success is the ability to go fr
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00225.html (12,525 bytes)
- 55. [TowerTalk] Tower tip (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Mon Feb 10 19:14:30 2003
- Yep, Jos, that's the word. Wasn't new to me, but then I grew up with the Amerenglish language.....-WB2WIK/6 "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00232.html (15,064 bytes)
- 56. [TowerTalk] Favourite tower tip (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Tue Feb 11 10:54:51 2003
- That was a really good story, and sounds too familiar. One tip I give to everybody, even when installing an antenna on a roof: Figure out an escape plan in case all else fails. I've known two local h
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00255.html (9,561 bytes)
- 57. [TowerTalk] Coax cables (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Wed Feb 12 15:13:59 2003
- Sure, but since I buy good (new) ones for $.90/each, I'd better be able to rework one in less than 50 seconds or it would be cheaper to toss it out and use a new one, based on my time value. -WB2WIK/
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00294.html (8,851 bytes)
- 58. [TowerTalk] Coax (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Wed Feb 19 11:19:27 2003
- Roger, these two products are very, very similar. I have them both on hand, and use them both. No obvious constructional differences. Which weathers better outdoors remains to be seen, for me, since
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00353.html (7,944 bytes)
- 59. [TowerTalk] Digging the hole (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Thu Feb 20 11:06:38 2003
- I think it's impossible to estimate without knowing the soil, and if the conditions you describe remain constant all the way down to six feet. In standard undisturbed earth, a 4x4x6' hole takes one p
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00367.html (9,533 bytes)
- 60. [TowerTalk] Digging the hole...after the "dig" (score: 1)
- Author: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
- Date: Thu Feb 20 14:38:13 2003
- Be careful, as what you propose is not "construction grade" concrete intended for structural applications. SACRETE + WATER = post hole filler, also okay for sidewalks, lawn trim, etc. Not okay to sup
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00381.html (10,093 bytes)
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