--I am not on either of those reflectors-- However, what the person is referring to as a "spider ball" is a form of what is more nomally called a "spline ball" or "dissipation brush". Yes, they defin
i am new to this list, as it was suggested subscribe and bring my question here: i have two 80 foot high trees separated about 110 feet and a full wave loop (lower wire only about 8 feet off the grou
You guys that put up big towers need to read the book, "Younger Next Year". Seriously. Towers scare me. And thanks guys for the hint to put up a triangular shaped loop for 80m. mike w7dra ___________
i found a tree i could shoot an arrow up into, so now i have kind of a rounded top triangle. i have no idea where in the trees the apex is, but there is about 100 feet between the two ground corners
the way you guys badger engineers. wow. required reading for the group should include fyneman's "surely your joking". mike w7dra (who, after reading about towers now for 3 weeks, will NEVER put one u
anyone here ever use #10 house wire (singe insulated strand, the kind that goes inside armored cable) as twisted pair? seems like it would be in the high 90s impedance, and easier for me to get than
not that i have ever guyed a tower, let alone would ever want to, but in putting concrete pads down for portable buildings/cabins, i always drive 6 foot lengths of 3/4 inch rebar and various angles l
for field day i was thinking of using an off center fed windom for 80/40. since that is a single wire feed, i was thinking of putting up two radials per band, mounted about 5 feet off the ground, wit
interesting this talk about CW. right at this minute i have my 10 year old grand son looking at the "learn code in a minute" sheet decoding what i am sending to him dit dah dah dah __________________
i remember one user group (Comodore) that used to say that the largest comcputer a single man can keep in his head is the VIC20. that is too much for my brain...................... mike w7dra who is
hark - all you antenna enthusiasts out there, i have just put up a 40m half square, voltage fed, with the bottom of the vertical wires about 10 feet off the ground. i was thinking of either putting s
......................... I was also wondering how long it would take before someone asked how this thing was going to perform........................................ then there is the old half squar
is not this the reflector where people who own towers talk about things? he he mike w7dra _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers",
with a 8$ walmart special sling shot and 15 pound test with 1-2 oz oz of weight (depends upon tree drag and wind conditions) i can get upwards of 70 feet on a good day. using a 50 pound bow and a fis
i show pictures like this to my wife mike w7dra _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://
i think it is time to pull up the "trubo encabulator" video that made the rounds a few years ago mike w7dra who as we speak, is pruning a few feet at a time from his 80m delta loop to get the swr jus
i can just see a bunch of archeologists in the year 3406 struggling to figure out what special secret "lost technology" we had back in the dark ages of 1945 mike w7dra and there is something i hear n
IF you send it to me, you will not have to pay the new Electronics Disposal fee proposed by the Environmentalist Democrats, or have to send it to a small town in China you could send me the bathroom
you know what bothers me, through air transmission is the only way of getting your message out to the public without political distortion (other than by frequency jamming). short wave radio has its p
As you are wiring the receptacle you constantly hear in your ears; did you do that right? why don't you check it once more? I don't know about that, if my mother were here she would be suspicious....