be rated one There is a company in Wisconsin called Harken that has "blocks" in various sizes. They are fabricated from stainless and a high density polymer like 'cryolac' with nylon ball-bearings.
WARNING!!! Don't use that block for loads even approaching 2000 lbs. There is no way you can buy any ball bearing block with a SWL rating of 2000 lbs for $12.00--stainless strapped or otherwise. If y
Here is a follow on question now that the answers to the question, "What is the best antenna wire?", have dropped off. Ladies and Gentlemen: In your opinion, what is the best choice for the wire to b
Jerry: I posted a copy of an interesting article from a Ham Radio issue in May of 1985 on my web site (www.k0to.us) . Page down to the page that has links to PDF files. Look for the "160 meter Transm
I want to assure you that it was worth every cent to get the CD ROM set from ARRL. I do have an almost complete set of HR (missing maybe one or two initial issues), I have promised that to another ha
My memory is faulty on this, but I seem to recall that in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area the meters were converted to RF reading. It was such a disaster that it was stopped. I believe that they have g
I am going to spend my 2003 tax cut on this instead of saving it for my retirement. _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wirel
Ed: I am using a HyGain HyTower which I modified to work "better" on 160 meters and 80 meters. To avoid the problem of blowing the insulator which separates the stinger from the tower I simply connec
Just relax and feed the power to the system. Use a tuner to adjust the impedance at the station for the 40-2CD when you use SSB. If the 2.5:1 bothers you at (21.000 you said, but I suspect you meant