What the landscape people use is an edger that they tilt to cut a trench where they place plastic or metal edging. It is only a couple of inches deep. You might want to consider renting such a machin
I am looking for suggestions or comments on 2 ele 40m beams. I am going to be putting up a Trylon 64ft self supporting tower with a SteppIR 4 ele beam and would like a reasonable 40m beam. Interactio
I just recently installed an alpha-spid into a Tryon t-600. The software that came with the unit works fine. I have also purchased TRX-Manager and I am working with TRX as the rotor control was not r
Things change. I was a big supporter of F12 when they first hit the market. They were very responsive to questions on the phone and on the reflectors. Lately it appears that they are not responsive a
No problems here. W0MU Hi David, Very relevant question, there. My answer, thus far, would be "pretty much everybody" has had failures with the SteppIR products. At least, everyone I've spoken with w
Not sure what happened in this case. I have nothing but great things to say about Steve and his company. I ordered a Trylon Tower, climbing belts, hooks, galv spray etc. and I have always received it
As Steve pointed out, he started the reflector and is the moderator. If you don't like the way he runs the reflector feel free to start your own. Nobody if forcing you to stay or read any posts that
This reflector was set up by W4AN-SK and Steve on contesting.com. Contesting.com was at the time owned by W4AN, KM9P at the time. If the new owners of contesting.com/eham.net have an issue with what
I believe that Tom at F12 told me that I could use aluminum rivets found at Home Depot. Just make sure they were aluminum. There is nothing pulling or twisting on the element pieces in the air so I d
After much deliberation we have decided to shunt feed my Trylon for 80m. Now we need to layout a bunch of radials. Has there been any discussion on using electric fence wire vs. copper wire? Does the
I have created a reflector for the new Yaesu FTDX-9000. To subscribe send an email to ftdx9000-subscribe@w0mu.com Mike W0MU _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.
Here are the specs from US Tower 9 sq ft with 65 pounds for 70 mph winds. 22 sq ft with 100 pounds for 50 mph winds. What is your wind zone. I would hope that you would have the tower down when not i
Last night we had some thunderstorm activity that was 5 or more miles away at least. I could visibly and hear static discharging off the reflector to the boom. The XM240's elements are insulated from
I own the tuning relay also. It works great. I wonder if FM will integrate this into their box someday? --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contestin
Come out to rural Montana and you will have a new appreciation for mice and Wood Rats! I have two mice that have taken up residence in some irrigation valve boxes that we just installed. They get int
I just ordered a HD70 from AN/Array Solutions and a 20ft mast just this week. Shipping costs to Colorado were about $1500 for prebuilt sections or $730 for the knocked down bundle. I ordered a mast f
I just ordered a 20ft mast DOM 2" from Array Solutions. $15.00 per foot. They had 18 and 20 ft sticks currently. Mike W0MU Array Solutions and Texas Towers are great sources for the 20 foot mast. Ano
Compared to my inverted v at 50 ft, a beam at 120ft will do better. 120ft is close to 1/2 wave length while 190 is close to 3/4 wavelength. I am not sure what the models would say but higher is usual
Bill, I wrote to one of the relay stations with similar questions. Usually in Colorado KH6 boom in on 15 and 20m even when condx are poor. Maybe the arrays are fixed over the pole which would put the
They were booming in here on 40 and 80 CW this am. Worked them with 400 watts and an R8 Vertical on 40 and a random wire on 80. Whatever they have there works to the states anyway. Mike W0MU --Origin