- 1. [TowerTalk] ZR-3 Vertical (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Bill Hawkins)
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:47:42 -0500
- Anybody ever use a Force 12 ZR-3 vertical antenna? If so, good and bad points please. Bill W5EC -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Admini
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-05/msg00082.html (6,769 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Best Vertical? (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Bill Hawkins)
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:12:40 -0500
- Well, it looks like I will be moving to a temporary QTH and renting. Yard does not lend itself to a beam so probably will have to put up a vertical. Since it is not my property, I can't dig the yard
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-04/msg00612.html (8,150 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] G4ZU (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Bill Hawkins)
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:56:12 -0600
- Back in the'50s Dick Bird, G4ZU, published an article in CQ magazine titled something like "A shortened minibeam". I built it as my 1st 20m beam and it did an excellent job. I lost the article! Anybo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-03/msg00429.html (6,865 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] Alternate towers (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Bill Hawkins)
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 07:52:31 -0600
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0005_01BE42B7.80511B40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I recently made a trip
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-01/msg00304.html (9,300 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] KT34A (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Bill Hawkins)
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:09:39 -0600
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0006_01BE0CD5.483BD280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello I have a KT34A th
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-11/msg00278.html (10,054 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] KT34A (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Bill Hawkins)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:54:31 -0600
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_003E_01BE0E76.43CD2440 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks to all who respo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-11/msg00412.html (9,413 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] trees as guy anchors (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 06:53:01 -0500
- Here in Florida, the palm trees may break during the worst hurricanes, but they don't pull up! Bill W5EC -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.c
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-09/msg00508.html (9,564 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] Bazooka (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 07:00:33 -0500
- Thanks to all for your comments on the bazooka. The bazooka is now forgotten. Bill W5EC -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-08/msg00034.html (6,557 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] Power Line Interference (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 07:15:43 -0500
- Consider yourself lucky. Bill -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contesting.com Problems: owne
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-08/msg00220.html (11,412 bytes)
- 10. [TowerTalk] Takeoff angle (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 15:17:26 -0500
- Hi all What happens to the takeoff angle of a vee beam or rhombic when it is constructed on the side of a hill. If it is pointed downhill, is the angle smaller (to horizontal) thereby making it a bet
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-08/msg00343.html (7,200 bytes)
- 11. [TowerTalk] Takeoff angle (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:30:49 -0500
- Good. My future qth is on top of a gently sloping hill, maybe 10 degrees. I think I want a vee beam, but it will be pointing SE. It will be interesting to see how it works-maybe long path to Asia on
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-08/msg00430.html (8,133 bytes)
- 12. [TowerTalk] claim form (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 06:10:49 -0500
- Read this last night and couldn't stop laughing. My wife looks at me like I'm crazy. Bill accident claim. This was the response: "I put `poor planning' as the cause of my accident. I am an amateur ra
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00008.html (9,558 bytes)
- 13. [TowerTalk] texas towers back order (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 07:13:49 -0500
- The old saying comes to mind-- "Make someone happy and they will tell a few people. Make someone unhappy and they will tell a few thousand people!" Bill opinion. realistically it ain't To: <towertalk
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00106.html (13,123 bytes)
- 14. [TowerTalk] Figuring Noon (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 07:22:27 -0500
- It seems that some folks beams are a lot better than mine and they must have an extremely narrow pattern, but a compass is good enough for my KT-34A. Bill -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/tow
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00108.html (10,354 bytes)
- 15. [TowerTalk] True north? (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 07:22:29 -0500
- Don't forget "eutectic". Bill -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contesting.com Problems: owne
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00109.html (8,679 bytes)
- 16. [TowerTalk] Show me the money! (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 21:20:43 -0500
- Does this mean you will be deader if you fall 1100' instead of 100'? Bill -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: tow
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00181.html (8,568 bytes)
- 17. [TowerTalk] Re: [Tower Talk] Home Owner's Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:20:19 -0500
- The "attached to house" seems to be the magic phrase. I live on the beach here in Fla and when Opal came through here in Oct '95 it tore up this area. Fortunately my KT34A and hazer were down and the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00703.html (11,585 bytes)
- 18. [TowerTalk] Bazooka (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:38:35 -0500
- To you wire antenna gurus-a question. I read an article about the double bazooka 80m antenna and how two of them in a phased array will provide 4.5db gain in the inverted vee configuration. Won't a s
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-07/msg00859.html (7,139 bytes)
- 19. [TowerTalk] Switching 450 ohm twinlead? (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 18:42:25 -0500
- Speaking of 450 ohm open wire, what is the best way to get the wire into the shack? The flexible strip under the window doesn't get it any more. Bill W5EC -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/tow
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00250.html (12,315 bytes)
- 20. [TowerTalk] serious dxers (score: 1)
- Author: w5ec@digitalexp.com (Hawkins, Bill)
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:28:55 -0500
- Wonder if he lights his tower??? Bill -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contesting.com Proble
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00416.html (8,061 bytes)
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