- 1. [TowerTalk] Bees (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 23:44:45 +0600
- Tom, are you certain they were bees.... and not "YellowJackets". A Yellowjacket is similar to a smallish wasp but is yellow and black striped and they live in holes in the ground similar to the way y
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-07/msg00569.html (9,163 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Stinging Insects (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:37:46 +0600
- One last parting comment in respect to potentially dangerous stings by flying insects. Although a number of individuals have emphatically stated that Africanized hymenopterous insects (K-B's) do not
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-07/msg00690.html (7,550 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] Lightning (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:49:42 +0600
- Although I appreciate the obviously intended humor of Barry (see below), I must relate that while living in Florida for years, my ungrounded tower was not struck by lightning. I also disconnected all
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-06/msg00132.html (8,213 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] Long Rotor Cable Run (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:26:40 +0600
- Jan, would recommend outdoor Romax (No. 10 size.) I buried four lengths of that to provide 12 conductors for two separate rotors. I has worked very well for me. The distance to the rotors at this ins
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-06/msg00948.html (8,575 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] Ion dischargers/static dischargers/whatever (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:06:14 +0600
- "IMO it's unwise to install any intentional noise generator near the antenna, especially when a smooth ball can have exactly the same effect on the electric field without generating intentional undes
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-05/msg00237.html (9,194 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] Re: Tower Talk Digest V1 #685 (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 23:07:14 +0600
- _________________________________________________________________________ Being a perfectionist <<GRIN>>, I have to take exception to the statment that there are no Yagis on 160. I have in my posses
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-05/msg00302.html (7,665 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Re: Tower Talk Digest V1 #685 (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 23:07:16 +0600
- ___________________________________________________________________________ Gentlemen, Macintosh not only makes quiet computers and monitors, they make one that has a PII microprocessor as well so t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-05/msg00303.html (8,735 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] Launching Lead (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 13:04:08 +0600
- Well, they come back down to the ground--at approximately the same velocity they had when leaving the gun barrel. That's why people (and kids) here in Dallas get 'shot' just about every July 4th, of
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-05/msg00577.html (8,206 bytes)
- 9. No subject (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 09:10:43 +0600
- I plan to bury four #6 bare copper radials, each 65' long under my 60' tower. They are for lightning dissipation as well as for radials to complement my 80M Half-Sloper. I have turf like grass and ha
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-05/msg00619.html (8,531 bytes)
- 10. [antennaware] Re: [TowerTalk] vert. polarized yagi (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:47:41 -0500
- ________________________________________________________________ Harvey, I respectfully disagree for all but the most local conditions. After the signal has bounced off of the ionosphere, it is no l
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00380.html (7,622 bytes)
- 11. [TowerTalk] Radio Shack Iron. (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:48:10 -0500
- I seem to swim upstream an awful lot: I watched Mike Gibson, KH6ND, use a Radio Shack soldering iron (changed the tip out for one of the heavier ones so that the amount of heat sinking ability was gr
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00464.html (7,949 bytes)
- 12. [TowerTalk] TH3 Instruction Booklet (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:32:58 -0500
- Hi! I've purchased a TH3 from someone and the hardware needs replacing and the dimensions are needed. (I've misplaced the User's Instruction manual). Can anyone help me, please? I want to put it up w
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-04/msg00675.html (7,507 bytes)
- 13. [TowerTalk] Re: Antenna Height and Signal Strength (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:34:53 -0600
- ___________________________________________________________________________ The above remarks and others pertinent to the same subject reminds me of the time that, immediately after putting up a 4-e
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-02/msg00401.html (10,823 bytes)
- 14. [TowerTalk] Website for Antenna Bearing? (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 06:45:49 -0600
- Hi! I'm in quest of a website that would offer non-technical persons a means to obtain a great circle route map (downloading a great circle map or downloading a program that would do it) with nothing
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00002.html (8,149 bytes)
- 15. [TowerTalk] Tower Lubrication (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 04:00:18 -0600
- _________________________________________________________________ Ken, I wouldn't advise it for a number of reasons. Having used it for years on my handguns and rifles, I've found it effectively drie
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00106.html (11,006 bytes)
- 16. [TowerTalk] Tower Cable Lube (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:56:29 -0600
- stops and are still supported by the cable(s). Even if the towers are supposed ___________________________________________________________________________ Au contraire, Dick. The SkyNeedle had a plat
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00138.html (11,535 bytes)
- 17. [TowerTalk] I.C.E. Webpage or Phone Number (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:32:32 -0600
- Does anyone know the webpage or phone number for International Communications Engineers (I.C.E.)? I can't find them listed in the latest CQ or QST and www.switchboard.com can't locate them either. Th
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00146.html (6,959 bytes)
- 18. [TowerTalk] 50 Ohm/70 Ohm Mismatch (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:12:26 -0600
- __________________________________________________________________________ Your run is almost perfect for the 50 ohm - 70 ohm transformation. The velocity factor of CATV foam filled aluminum exterior
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00149.html (11,178 bytes)
- 19. [TowerTalk] Stacked Tribanders and Phasing Box (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:21:48 -0600
- I want to stack a pair of tribanders and need to obtain something like the "Phase Box" (50 ohms in; 50 ohms out-twice) that was once sold by DX Engineering for approximately $100. Does anyone know if
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-01/msg00395.html (7,090 bytes)
- 20. [TowerTalk] Unterminated Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph)
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 03:10:05 -0600
- I have two Beverages: one pointed to the NE and one to the SE. They both originate in ICE baluns and are terminated at the far end with 450 ohms. Question: Can I simply unterminate them and leave the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00030.html (7,596 bytes)
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