Thanks, I made the mistake of loaning my most recent catalog and only have the remnants of an old one. Now if I could only remember to who I loaned it. I knew the loading wasn't much. Roger Halstead
I've seen quite a few requests about thrust bearings. has any one thought of making thrust bearings out of taper, or wheel bearings. As they are steel they would require protection from the elements,
Just a point of interest here and I've only seen it once. All coax comes into the house through underground PVC conduit. The coax is grounded to the tower and to the bulkhead for the Polyphasers. The
Several times I have recently received requests to the address I use only on towertalk to verify messages to addresses I do not recognize. This is one of the methods spammers use to verify addresses.
The drawing I have for the gac305 anchor shows them angled but doesnt give any hints on >how to do it. I know I need the hole to be 3x3x4 but from there I'm not sure what I need to >do to get the anc
Something to remember about elevated guy anchors. They really need to be massive and strong. The elevated part needs to be heavy structural steel capable of holding the guy tension and load without g
Apparently it's some one who was a member. I can find no record of that address on google. It shows as a compuserve address bounced from AOL It must be about time to pull that one from the address li
Some do and some don't. Being Belden I'd think the dielectric would be stable, but I've seen lots of older twinlead that had turned brittle almost like the old "zip cord" that was used on a lot of th
<snip> Mike wrote I don't disagree that Garmin is by far is a better unit than the Magellan. I however don't consider the Magellan to be junk. I've compared my Magellan against Garmins three times th
I'm having to add quotes as the message must have been in HTML originally. At 08:52 AM 9/20/2004, Jim Brown wrote: My friends who claim to be educated in matters of GPS say that because of the manner
Yup! Only when you post do you see the geo888. He's apparently on the list and changed addresses. The address should be dropped. Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member) N833R, World's Oldest D
Dan Bookwalter wrote: "The federal government in its infinite wisdom interceded years ago on behalf of a small minority of radio operators when they might have been relevant to some national emergenc
Jeff Goldman wrote: In the magazine business, inserts, such as thew subscription card, are page numbered. Thus the pages 75 and 76 are CQ Subscription card. Also the Reader Service Card between pages
Michael Tope wrote: Good points, Rick. That is probably why the ARRL came up with contests and the DXCC program. Both programs motivate vast numbers of hams to maintain Here in Midland County, the EO
Mike Switzer wrote: Hi All I purchased some N connectors and unknowingly ordered crimp on connectors. Before I send them back I would like some opinions. I got TC-400-NM Times Microwave Systems conne
Mike Switzer wrote: Hi All I purchased some N connectors and unknowingly ordered crimp on connectors. Before I send them back I would like some opinions. I got TC-400-NM Times Microwave Systems conne
Any one have experience with "half slopers"? (half of a half wave with the tower serving as the other side) Yesterday I installed a half sloper for 160 and am quite pleased with the results. The feed
Doug Renwick wrote: Roger, A while back I had two half wave slopers on 75. One to the NE and one to the SW. There was about 2 S-units difference between stations in line when switching one to the oth
ChetMoore wrote: Could you expand a bit on what you mean by good results???? Low SWR??? Worked well in to africa and Europe, VK and ZL? If you are doing all of that you don't need any more advice. Wo
Jerry Keller wrote: I'm getting two copies of TT postings. Anyone know why? I think this was happening once before, to a lot of members... but it was corrected. 73, Jerry K3BZ More than likely it is