All this off-topic stuff about antennas and rotators has got to stop. I subscribed to this reflector to talk about towers. (I'm joking actually). Here's a tower-related question: I use a Klein climbi
Question to the experts. I read this from Gene: and wondered: Let's say I DO put my Polyphasers at the tower bases. My coax runs are between 87 and 200 feet from there to the shack, above ground. Isn
tower I think the anecdote predates the big storm - I think I heard the story in the 70s. I think it was the big station. Just got off the phone with K5TR and he related yet another in this series o
I have been dying to ask Steve this same question, since I think he said in Dayton that "you just add it all up." My basic understanding makes me think that 10 square feet halfway up a 100' tower is
I used a 2 element shorty 40M yagi (forget if it was a HyGain or a Cushcraft) to make 1000 QSOs (largely NA and EU) on 15M from HC8U in 1989 in the CQWW CW contest. If I'd have had a real 15M antenna
If it were my station the answer would depend a LOT on if this was a 10 meter run or a 160 meter run - many people feel the UHF barrel connector and two PL259s are visible to the RF - more on 10M tha
Craig, If the people who have the rights to the work would authorize it, I would be happy to run a copy and save you and the printer some trouble/effort. Would that be possible? Mark, N5OT
K7PUC asked: I think I have this right: BIP BOP is a coax switch abbreviation for "Both In Phase - Both Out of Phase" referring to having two vertically stacked antennas. I think usually it's a 4 pos
Greetings, Rather than duplicate a bunch of effort I know has been done, I hope tower talkers can point me to the best deal in antenna element tubing. Any hints? Mark, N5OT
I have installed 2 Force 12 40M antennas in and amongst antennas on other bands and noticed no reduction in performance of other antennas. In both cases the 15M antenna was 15 or 16 feet above the 40