- 1. [TowerTalk] Painting DOM (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:55:58 -0600 (MDT)
- In addition to the ideas already offered - you could contact a local powder-coating shop and have it powdercoated, since it's unlikely you have an oven large enough to cure the powder. :) On the subj
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-05/msg00662.html (7,731 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Used Harnesses (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Mandera <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:28:51 -0600
- I'm about to join the ranks of those with a tower at home, and just bought a Miller/Titan harness kit (TFPK-6/U/6FTAK) new, for many of the arguments-against-used already stated. It hasn't arrived y
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-08/msg00227.html (8,243 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] Rohn HDBX Advice (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Mandera <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:52:07 -0600
- Wouldn't the addition of a washer or two make up the additional shank-length to get you to where the bolt will tighten up against the leg and still have sufficient excess for your ground lug? Anothe
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-08/msg00449.html (9,897 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] Cubex (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:18:56 -0600
- Bill, I called Cubex last week - I called the # on the "home" page where it lists the "updated" phone number, not the one on the "order" page which was different. I left a message, and had a call-ba
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-08/msg00508.html (7,804 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] Lightning and Grounding (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:55:46 -0600
- I just installed my first tower and have been taking pains to implement a ground system. The first vertical went up 2 years ago with no SPG, and the hex beam went up last year, again with no SPG, but
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00318.html (11,441 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] Sommer (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:59:04 -0600
- I just put up a Sommer, DJ2UT beam, the XP708 (base in my case was an XP705 for 5 bands, this one had three additional bands added to become a 708). They also had a XP50x and XP80x (the XP700 series
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-10/msg00054.html (8,796 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Bonding coax to tower (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:51:33 -0600
- For my installation, I mounted some 2x2x1/8 aluminum angle at the top of the tower as a stand-off for a dipole, and also a convenient place to terminate the heliax. The hardline runs N connectors to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-06/msg00172.html (7,654 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] HDBX (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:09:13 -0700
- I have a 40' HDBX that I bought second hand from a SK. It came with the Sommer XP708 beam on top, which exceeds the boom-length restriction, but is under the 18sq ft 70mph rating. Fortunately, the p
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-12/msg00196.html (8,101 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] HDBX (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Mandera <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:11:51 -0700
- I put up a used HDBX-40 in 2010. This picture http://www.tmcom.com/~tsm1/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=86140 http://www.tmcom.com/~tsm1/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=86146 Shows the some of the correct f
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-02/msg00011.html (8,560 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX Gin pole (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Mandera <tsm1@tmcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:54:15 -0400
- I didn't use a Rohn 25 Gin pole, but with the steel pole and pulley Gin pole I used to erect my HDBX, I just welded a length of tubing to two long flat plates at the "right" angle. This sat against t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-08/msg00418.html (6,945 bytes)
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