I use regular Romex wire from Home Depot. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com ht
Take the connector off and look at the dielectric. Sometimes there will be a trail shorting it out. You may have to cut off an inch and reinstall the connector. I would try this first. Chuck W5PR Sen
You can do that, but you will have to feed the tapered element dimensions into a program to convert into the correct length for the non-tapered element. Chuck W5PR ___________________________________
Take the first one off and see where it resonates Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contestin
Maybe I don't understand, but I would think that if you had a tower with an aluminum tube "stinger" on top, this might not work because of the change in percentage of the various diameters. Chuck W5P
But you are only adjusting the smaller diameter tube and not the larger diameter. Afterward, the antenna will have a larger percentage of the large diameter than before. Therefore, it is a different
I agree. But, what was wanted is a formula where only one adjustment was needed. I think that will only work when the entire element is one diameter such as a wire. The ratio will get close, but will
Does that tower have the same dimensions as Rohn 25? You could remove the top section and install the rotor there. Once inside, it might be possible to work it up. I'm not sure anyone here has experi
Yaesu G-2800DXA is 180 ft lbs Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.c
Where does this line appear? is it just above the element table? Is it a 6 meter yagi file? The line just above the element table is the diameter of the tubing for each element section. The table bel
There is a way to calculate the match parameters in YO. I don't use it. That may be the output for that calculation. If you run that .YAG file in YO, it should tell you. There is no manual that I kno
With a fan dipole, research sponsored by the military showed that it helps if you can spread the dipoles apart about 8 to 10 inches at the center. I have a piece of plastic about two feet long and ab
I have had traces on the ends of hardline that looked like calcium or maybe salt deposits. Slightly off-color, almost invisible, They conduct from center to shield. It is difficult to scrape them off
Plug it into a push button switch, or a wall switch so it can interrupt the 110v while you are operating. We have a lighted china cabinet that does that. I just unscrew the bulbs a couple of turns. C
I use WX0B Stackmatches on the towers. I have taken several direct lightning strikes with no apparent damage. If you are phasing the antennas for max gain, you would have to have equal lengths of coa
By the way, most guy lines like this are terminated with about 15 feet of EHS guy line so they are protected from fire and intentional harm. The Loos gauge will measure the tension on the EHS, not th
The problem with using two back-to-back thimbles is the radius is too small. It needs to wrap around something larger. Many thimbles would end up squeezing together so that the guy grips would be out
I used the plugs for years without problem before changing rotor brands. It sure makes it easier to switch out rotors and alleviates the corroded screws problem. Chuck W5PR __________________________
I bolted a compact pickup truck aluminum tool box to the wall of the shack opposite the operating table. Hardliners enter the bottom and feed throughs go into the shack wall to an aluminum plate on t