Put your heads together and help K4JNY and myself come up with a solution to this problem: KLM 4 el 40m beam at 120 feet, 5 el 10 meter beam on a 28? boom at 125 feet on the same mast. 45G tower guye
We tried both a couple of short jumpers at the top of the tower to the feedpoint and then a ~130 foot piece of RG213 from the feedpoint to the base of the tower. Yes. 99.9% yes. K4JNY checked that o
Scott Unknown, as the 10 meter antenna went on the mast first. We're fairly certain this is not the balun, after trying the stock KLM 4:1, a new Radio Works 4:1 and (just for why not? value) a Radio
Alright - I think K4JNY and I have a place to start, though it's going to be Jeff up at the top of the tower figuring out the answer to this riddle once we have the chance to look at it again in a fe
This is stretching the limits of this topic, but I used to have this exact same attitude about insurance until my house was seriously damaged in a non-ham radio related incident in March 2002. Your
K4JNY and I are building yet another tower at his place, this one a Rohn 45. We have acquired some Phillystran that formerly was holding a 100' Rohn 25 up until we pulled it all down last year. There
Hello: Anyone out there in Towertalkland have Rohn 45G guy bracket/ torque arm assemblies and/or 2" thrust bearings they could do to part with? Prime tower erecting season is coming (i.e. 24 hours be
Towertalkers: I need rotator quick disconnects, and I need them right now for a tower project this weekend. Radio Works, where I usually buy them, is out of stock. I've tried Texas Towers and Burghar
Towertalkers: Question about guy wire vibration. K4JNY and I were doing tower work at his place all day Sunday and have noticed that on our 120? Rohn 45 that we are experiencing quite a bit of vibrat
Towertalkers: One of the two Create RC5B-3 rotator boxes at the K4JNY/W4PA contest station has quit on us. After a couple of months of trying to troubleshoot it I am appealing to the masses for insig
OK Towertalkers: I spent some time this afternoon trying to help a fellow ham figure out what model a Hy-Gain tribander he's acquired (used) might be. It's a Hy-Gain, for sure. I can tell by all the
OK - The suggestions I have are that it could be a Hy-Gain DB1015 dualbander, a Garant GB-3, or a Wilson 36, 33, or System One that used hardware that looked like HyGain. The small traps and 8 bolt b
Towertalkers: A Create RC5B-3 rotator box for the VHF antennas at the K4JNY/W4PA contest station is dead. We are stumped. We replaced the push-pull output transistors and their driver - no change. Th
I see our favorite tower hardware supplier www.towerconnections.com is now history. I called the contact numbers at the bottom of the current web page and the company that is now running them has no
Greetings -- The K4JNY/W4PA contest station continues to be disassembled at a rapid rate but we have not made it all the way to the takedown of some of the Rohn 25 towers. They are now ready to come
OK - that was a terrible pun, but I couldn't resist. I have a couple of I.C.E. Beverage matching transformer boxes and I can't identify what model they are or what the value of the impedance taps are
I am aware of someone in eastern Tennessee (a newer ham) who has been unsuccessfully searching for tower help here locally. He's got 50 ft. of Rohn 25 freestanding with a 20 ft. mast at the top with
Oops. It's come to my attention that someone might have thought I was referring to David Fridley, who was killed in a (not stupid) tower accident in Tennessee a couple of years ago in the below post
K1KY method adapted from (I think) W0UN as taught to me ca. 1995: * Unscrew shell of AMPHENOL PL-259, place on coax. Not hamfest brand PL-259. AMPHENOL. * Hold body of PL-259 next to coax with the to
Somewhere in the dark corners of my mind I've lost this information . . . T2X and HAM series rotators have similar bolt patterns, with a 6 hole drilled plate for the T2X series, will there be any iss