You should be able to figure it out with an ohm meter and the schematic off the internet. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ To
The voltage at the bottom of a grounded tower shunt fed at 60 feet or so would be low in my estimation. I'll send my dog over to sniff it out. :-) Chuck W5PR _________________________________________
I used to pull all plugs and disconnect all antennas but had a problem because I left the equipment grounded and strike came over phone line through an amplifier to ground. Now I have an equipment gr
The UHF to N male are especially prone to breaking at the swivel joint. I had to temporarily substitute an N connector Stackmatch using 4 Uhf to N adapters purchased locally and all eventually separa
With the uhf de Male to N male adapter I believe if you threaded it on to an N you could break it apart with your hands. Chuck W5PR Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________
Wow, what a great tutorial on AN Wireless towers. Thanks, David. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
Assuming you safe using the same length of coax to the rig and the analyzers, maybe the coax has an imperfection that only shows up at higher power? I check coax with opposite e d open (such as gamma
If one used water pipe with extra braces, I would expect the tower to collapse under its own weight. I think wood would be more suitable, if it is available. Chuck W5PR Sent from my iPhone __________
I have been a ham well over 50 years and have soldered on the towers many, many times. Electric guns require long extension cords and are difficult to get up the tower and use. Butane torches tend to
Interestingly enough, when I had a 130 foot tower on the east side of Galveston Bay on a promontory out in the salt water, I was the highest structure for miles. I expected to have frequent strikes,
If you use 4 guys instead of 3, it might help. Perhaps 4 posts, one at each corner of the house could extend 10 feet or so above the roof to give you a better guying angle. Chuck W5PR _______________
HFTA has been running fine on my Win 10 computer until today. Now I'm getting an error message '53' when I hit "compute." I have restarted the computer and reinstalled HFTA. It seems to be missing so
I cleared the YTW.DEF file and started over. Must have been corrupted. Works fine now. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tower
When I turn my antennas toward a cell tower about a mile away, I get a lot of birdies on 6 and 10 meters. I am not certain it is the cell tower, but there is very little in between. Chuck W5PR ______
You might try loosening the Yagi mounting clamps and let them slide down the mast to the top of the tower. Then slide the mast up using a gin pole until you can insert the bearing. Then let the mast
I did not imply that tnstaafl mast should be removed from the tower. Just lifted enough to insert the bearing. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _____________________________
This was in QEX May/June 2011: "...in the July and August 2009 World Above 50 MHz QST column, Gene Zimmerman, W3ZZ, comments on the work of Joe Kraft, CT1HZE, suggesting that arrival angle probabilit
This has been a great and very informative thread. I wish there was a reflector devoted to 6 meter antennas... Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _____________________________