Hi all, So itıs been recommended by many, many sources to guy such verticals as the R-6000 and R-8, as well as the Hygain no-radial verticals (Patriot). Does anyone know the appropriate minimum guyin
There are two issues at play here: one is the absorption by the house. I have no numbers on this, but it has to be there. The second, and perhaps more important, is the lack of radials in that direct
Hi all, Shortly before we lost him all too early, I sent L.B. Cebik a note describing an idea I had for a vertical dipole. While he didn't go in to great detail, he did offer an excellent suggestion:
I've also seen pix of setups where six hamsticks are arranged, two split for the driven element and two each joined at the centre for the director and reflector. Force 12, I believe, supplied one Dxp
I think this all reminds me of the bumblebee axiom quoted here (or on Cq-contest, can't remember), which said that -- and it is fact -- aerodynamic experts, calculating mass and wing surface area, ha
I have a 5BTV and shouting at the trees works better than the 5BTV... (on 80). _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list T
'Guided' tower? So it has it's own seeing-eye dog? Can't it get by with the little white cane? I mean, it doesn't have far to go... _______________________________________________ ___________________
I suppose the key to getting over a mental block on climbs like this is that above a certain height (say, 100'), the consequences of a misstep are the same. The only difference at 1,763' is the amoun
If they are entering from below, I would suspect it's not through a hole that is a design flaw, but rather a hole designed as a moisture vent. I'd think if that was the case, screening the hole is a
I once read by someone else (can't claim this as my own) a method for Coax-seal that captures all the benefits of Coax-seal with none of the drawbacks: a layer of electrical tape, a layer of Coax-sea
I bought one of the DX Engineering coax prep tools (the black plastic clampy thingy with the round finger hole). Iım using it with the right insert (yellow RG-213) for the right coax (RG-213), yet th