That's easy -- just look for houses that are 5% larger or smaller than normal.... _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing lis
As long as you keep re-tensioning the lines holding it up, it's not a problem -- the gain in the main lobe keeps increasing until your halfwave dipole is more than double its original length....:-) B
As I suspected, Stephanie has been deluged with telephone calls since Steve's posting. I suggested to her that she let me publish her email address on TowerTalk so that she doesn't have to get bogged
I have often used two pieces of 1x6 shelving boards and the scissors jack from a defunct Datsun I once owned. I find the scissors jack to be somewhat easier to maneuver at the top of the tower than a
Duh....I thought that was the purpose of "Reply All". -1 here. Please don't change the way the "Reply" function works; I much prefer to "have" to hit "Reply All" than to rue sending a private reply b
Judging by your signature line, I gather "Hank" is your REAL part and "W6SX" is your IMAGINARY part.... _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
Then it DEFINITELY won't fit....:-) Bud, W2RU _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://li
Chuck -- I believe your gamma rod is too close to your tower. My current gamma rod is seven feet from the nearest side of my 90-ft top-loaded Rohn 45. That's the result of modeling with EZ-NEC, initi
Van -- I'll check to see if I still have a Ham-M manual from decades ago, but first I think it might help to have some idea of how old the rotor is. There's no guarantee the manufacturers didn't chan
The pdf at this link is a useful piece of background information for some of these questions: http://copyrightroyalties.com/TT0502.pdf Bud, W2RU _______________________________________________ ______
Alternatively, explain that (above) to the owners of the adjacent properties and get permissions for temporary guys at the proper distance from the base of the tower to safely climb and dismantle it.
Yep, I agree. Why do it with one click when three or four or more will do....:-) _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list
Relocate the shack, or relocate the service entrance. In my case, we did the latter.... I also had the telephone entrance relocated so that it came into the house within a few feet of the power line.
Agreed. But I found the losses from damage caused during three earlier storms not inexpensive, either. And unlike relocating either the shack or the service entrance, they were downright inconvenient
I did the same as you at a previous QTH. For the open wire line, however, I drilled two holes, each just large enough for a single #18 wire -- spaced the same spacing as the open wire line that would
I live in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate NY, with weather fairly similar to central NH. I own both a 40-2CD (predecessor to the XM240) and an M2 40M2LL (linear loaded elements). In the past, I'v
Yes, it takes me a bit longer to get to the top than it used to. The bigger problem is that once I get there, I've forgotten why I needed to go up there in the first place.... Bud, W2RU _____________
Not with the woods that surround my tower. I have to assemble everything at the top, then swing it up into place around the top set of guys and any other beams already mounted to the mast. And no way
I think I would modify that sentence slightly to say, "...as long as the horizontal component of the tension on all three guys at a given level is the same." If the guys come off the tower at differe