Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:35:53 -0500
Apparently they used the wrong lube, or it was supposed to be changed to something that doesn't stiffen up at zero. It did eventually make it close to that last night. I think too that the rotator ha
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:28:42 -0500
So, just purchase a copy and don't say you are a ham. That's done all the time with airplanes. Suppliers don't want their products such as resin, or springs, or bearings, or ... you name it, used in
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:57:22 -0500
Although we're starting to drift a bit: Rarely is software actually sold. Normally only the license. Usually, or at least quite often, those licenses can be resold along with the disks, but that depe
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:20:31 -0500
Other than understanding "AO" is an app for modeling antennas, just what is it? The proper name and author would help. Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - World's oldest Debona
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:07:50 -0500
Searching around on the net I came up with http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/links_software.shtml . On that site is an updated version of the AO software. There were no licenses listed, or other information
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:53:52 -0500
All I received was a blank message and the AVG add. I'm guessing it may have been posted in HTML which gets stripped before it gets sent to the group. Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Membe
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:46:41 -0500
That's too bad and I can emphathize as my profession was computer science before I retired. Unfortunately having a program cracked just goes with the territory of programming. Only when the programs
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:39:45 -0500
EME? Man, think 2.4 gig, 5.5 and on up. Raise the support point so the bottom of the dish is about 10 meters off the ground and you could cut a path to the horizon and beyond. Put some power behind i
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:32:28 -0500
I'd like a big self supporting crank-up but it'd stay up except for sever weather or maintenance. Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2 www.rogerhals
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:06:50 -0500
I've always used 3', 6', 9', 9', 10', and 20' the rest of the way. For steel guys I always keep the conductve part short close to the antenna. With the steep top guys which seem to have less effect I
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:13:13 -0500
How in the devil could ice, even falling ice cut Phillystran? Did some antenna parts come down too? When it comes to cutting Phillystran I gave up trying to use a box cutter and finally went to the s
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:45:56 -0500
It comes through fine here Some browsers use an automatic line wrap. OE will fit the text to what every width you have set on the screen while others us a fixed line wrap. OTOH I do occasionally rece
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:23:36 -0500
I'm not sure how to include it as it's a different thread, but I finally found one that does not wrap on the browser. This one BTW did wrap nicely and the example below looks fine unless hard returns
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:07:19 -0500
And your site might be where? <:-)) Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2 www.rogerhalstead.com _______________________________________________ See:
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:48:56 -0500
Thanks Jim, I gave up counting how many times I've done that. <:-)) 73 Roger (K8RI) _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wirel
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:12:23 -0500
I hate to say it, but there isn't much I can see. my computer security complains about too much of the photo hosting site for me to see much more than the cover photos. Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:37:42 -0500
I've been playing with phased arrays off and on since the mid to late 60s. This is the first time I've ever seen them used that way. <:-)) Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - W
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:09:12 -0500
The coil looks very much like the plate chokes we used to have in our RF induction heating generators. Depending on the frequency of the system we had some that were up to three feet long and six to
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:20:06 -0500
<snip> The short answer? When I come in to operate I expect to turn on the switch and go. When I finish operating in the evening I point the antenna where "I think" the band will be open when I get b
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:03:38 -0500
Sounds like an airplane. You either spend a lot of money flying it, or a lot of money fixing it if you let it set. Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - World's oldest Debonair C