That J at the end of the first sentence, in the received text was, in my sent html text, a smiley face! --Original Message-- From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of w5g
For what it's worth: We have feeders we stock with shelled sunflower seeds for scores of birds and dozens of squirrels. We switched to the (unfortunately, more expensive) unshelled because they left
I recall an identical sucking sound during the removal of my Ez-Way Tower Base (the 6 inch pole with eight flanges) with water lubricant and an engine hoist with block and tackle to the upper set of
I didn't write the QST article, but I did post some years ago, probably on the Contest ListServer, about my NEGATIVE experience when I tested the antenna on 80 meters in an NAQP Contest, and incremen
My Cal-AV 2 el 40 was installed in 2003 by N5YA, and when raised to 72 Feet (pic at www.mxg.com lower left corner) he was pissed that it clobbered his stack of two 2-el somethings! It's neither short
I have not seen the Fort Worth Antenna restrictions, but, while to my knowledge not ever enforced, and not on my 2-el Maco quad I had at the time, and while they MIGHT have been changed, the original
My 2003 OB16-3 has the original round boom, but thanks to N5YA's perfect install, there's been zero movement in 11 years. Wonderful antenna. 73 Barry, W5GN And OptiBeam uses a square boom for prefect
I believe that's why foam coax baluns are unwise in warm climates; I seem to recall several disaster stories in the early 70s around Dallas where the weight of the coax and the hot sun deformed and i
Mine works great. I feed my rooftop vertical with the KW Matchbox because in some parts of some bands the SWR causes Amp drop out. Long ago, when computer monitors were CRTs, I had my IBM monitor phy
Only two days to cure concrete! Barry, W5GN https://www.youtube.com/embed/84BeVq2Jm88?feature=player_detailpage _______________________________________________ _______________________________________
My dad ran Bartlett Tree who serviced all of the AEP lines in SW Virginia and their engineer said they put 7 feet of a 35 foot pole in the ground in the late 50s. Sounds like your TELCO poles had lig
The average human has one tit and one ball. So much for an average being a useful descriptive metric I concur TOTALLY on percentile (median) metrics. It's what REAL Operating Systems on REAL computer
About 10 years ago, AT&T installed their rectangular antennas on the 125 foot Power Pylon in the easement behind the house, and during the original install, swinging the OB16-3 8-el on 10 beam thru t
Even cheaper was the 2 el 15 meter beam using a 2x4 as the boom, 1x2 by 4 feet to which was mounted bamboo fishing poles wrapped with aluminum foil and a small loading coil on the director. Played ma
Mine's been in place since 2003 without a glitch. Photos at www.mxg.com lower left corner. 73 Barry, W5GN shape. I've spent the last few weeks trying to pick a rotator for a new installation. Indeed,
FWIW, it's certainly new, but I just read that if you pair two #18 gage wires, you have #15 gage capacity, and if then pair the two #15's, you have #12 gage capacity. Each paring reduces the gage by
About two weeks ago, we had an extremely close lightning strike that surged our AC voltage to about 6000V (estimate based on ¼ inch between the two arc burns on the shell of the plastic AC plug to th
Davis did subtract the time lost due to the winch issue, and the first electrical issue, and for the time the City Inspector delay us, and stopped charges at 3:30, dropping the drive home charge. And
Both houses are ours, so it is our own property line we are crossing!! Notwithstanding that fact, about 10 years ago, we were in fact hauled in front of the Planning Commission precisely because a bu
Oracle VM Virtual Box, also free, definitely works fine on WIN TEN, and was better at handling network disk drives than DOS BOX. Barry, W5GN Will DOSBox run on 64 bit Windows? John KK9A It should run