John, I cant speak for all CA. but my Daughter lives in the SF bay area just north/east of the GG bridge and the TAXES !!!!! yikes cost of living yikes As for the pointy headed type must be the CONE
Chris, Again from your description with a pier pin you do NOT need gravel In the bottom of the excavate hole ( that was for H2O drainage inside the vertical tubes ) I have never used a vibrator on a
Ron, I was involved in a group buy back in the 1980s and installed a number of towers with them and the appropriate Preformed Line Preformed Guy Grips. Initially the 6 ft. rolls ( just some in my cas
I 3rd the option of Crimped shield. Soldered center conductor . Works for me Wayne W3EA Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________
John, IMHO PhillyStran has its place in tower installations BUT you must consider the site for abrasion. It and polyrod will fail in that invroment. Even EHS 3/16 , ¼ and 5/16 will fail under fallen
Al, Green Heron rotor control are akin to the Swiss Army Knife of rotor boxes. On page 30 in the appendix A.7 Yaesu All versions. It give a detailed way to turn f its past the controllers soft limit
Scot, Thanks for the heads UP. I bought an new Chushcraft AW3 antenna. I got to install it one day B-4 My Major Lightning Strike ( READ UGLY) Long story short I never did a VSWR sweep because there w
Dave , The Chushcraft XM240 and the original 40-2CD had a trap coil problem. Under the heatshrink , the screw conector would develop elotrasiis and loose conductivity. An easy Fix but required antenn
Looking at the weeps , The linear loading wire/element support wire have to be intact I think I would look at the 4 turn 3 coil that across the feedpoint. Wayne W3EA Sent from Mail<https://go.microso
Scott, I hate to trash a specific manufactured antenna with 1000 of the A3S over the world there a creature of the past. Stan hit the nail on the head . the original 3 band trapless antenna Was Toms
John, If I remember your post. The TT rotor functioned when you had it at the base of the tower ? and you not doing a trick instillation A: + voltage transformer B: remoting the starting cap And you
Tony, My 4 SQ is like Tims old design modified Hy-Gain Hi=towers with aluminum stingers starting @ 2 and ending in 3/8 I lay each tower down ( hinged base) and tune the standing antenna at the base f
Wizzer, I Had a 5 element 20 36 ft boom no problem. Only issue is the drive motor gears when the antenna is 180 deg There is a slight rock in the cradle as it gos around. A visuial with someone opera
Jorge. ½ .049 wall id this is the tip you can upgrade this to a more common .058 wall. Not failure rate of the M2 antennas have installed two and assume there still in the air ! HY-Gain antennas espe
Jorge, IMO if I had to lower the antenna I would replace all the .049 wall with .058 and dampining rope . My .20 Wayne W3EA Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows
Ed, This assumption that you antenna caused interference is not an unsual phenominum. I had an instance where a neighbor on the next road over came to our home claiming the antennas 9 Yagi antennas o
Cant speak for every gin pole pully the Rohn 25/45/55 pully is a 2 aluminum rolling on a through rod in its aluminum cast housing. I also use a IIX gin pole. I use it for 55/65(10 ft sections) and AB
I have found that exposed THHN will loose its clear layer after a few years exposed, BUT the vinyl coating stayed in tact for some time. At my Old QTH my PropPitch rotors were feed with THHN I then a
Ignacy, According to the BIBLE (Rohn) product catalog @ 100 ft. of R45- Zone B 40FSF = three layers of 1/4 EHS. = 6650 lb tensial strength So IMO PhillyStran HTPG 6700 should be used for all three le
John, As suggested a small piece of angle iron I mad mine out of aluminum angle and drilled it for numerious tower legs You only need to raise the mast ¼ to remove the rotor Wayne ,W3EA Sent from Mai