Clint, You can use the thin drain pipe and drill the attaching holes through the side of each ring. Then you can attach the antenna wires to the ring by using small nylon cable ties. Pass them thru t
Clint, You can make a multi frequency element using the cage method. Just make each wire a slightly different length. Then it will tune across a larger bandwidth. I have built multi-band dipoles usin
Dick, Its shown in the HyGain manual. Its available in PDF form from the HyGain web site. http://www.hy-gain.com/man/pdf/HAM-IV.pdf * 73's Jim W5IFP * _______________________________________________
Steve, There are probably 1000 answers to the 1000 questions. I built my own house. Before we had the slab poured, I installed a pair of 2in PVC pipes that come up into the wall that is behind my ope
I can just see it now, Balloon Bazooka antenna. Very novel idea. * 73's Jim W5IFP * _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing l
Richard, If you can't find the article, there is several articles on the HF2V at: http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/hf2v/assembly You might look at the site and perhaps he may have a link to the inform
Eric, The best I have found is a Bow and arrow attached to an open faced fishing reel. The open face will allow the fishing line to quickly dispense with very little friction. If you are good, maybe
Tony, I would first replace the DVD cable with one that each line has individual shields. You might want to go with individual cables. Normally single cables are shielded. If you have a three wire Si
Jim, I may be barking up the wrong tree, however let me explain my reasoning. If you would re-read Toni's original post, .I Quote: Toni stated that he had isolated the problem to the Un-shielded cabl
Drax, I use a regular open rope hook at the bottom of the pole and a single reverse loop near the top of the pipe. You dont even need to tie a knot. This way the loop at the top will keep the pole up
Not strange at all. They probably got them cheaper or had some left over from another product. Also adds some confusion element. Otherwise we would have never had this unique discussion..(:-> Yaesu
RTV works for me... * 73's Jim W5IFP * _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.con
Lee, My tower is not 750ft away, however, 750 ft. should not be a problem for the position indicator. The problem would be the loss of power to the rotor motor. I would suggest he install a power sup
Chet, You have to paste it together. part of it line wrapped to the second line. Also you can take the parenthesis and the Http off. That will make is shorter. www.radioarcala.com/nbspStation/Towersa
John, I say go for it. I have a Prop pitch drive motor mounted at the 4ft level on my tower. This is a good working level and keeps grass cuttings from covering the rotor assembly. Mine is only a 50f
Rick, You are correct. Mine is probably 1 1/2 in based on the outside diameter. I was guessing from memory when I wrote the response. I installed the tower about 11 years ago at this QTH and I have h
I told myself not to enter this endless discussion. However the above comment got my attention. I fully agree with the statement especially when it comes to engineering Car batteries. They are the m
Dick, Ameritron makes several varieties. They are not cheap, however sometimes used units can be found at swap fest. A Google search for "Ameritron Antenna switch" will get you to the listing for new
I agree with your assessment. My Son-n-law purchased an Ameritron RCS 4 for about $30 at a swap fest. It was in pristine condition. We have since modified it to work with Logger32 for automatic anten