be,and that the cheapest, quickest way to a better signal is to go >QRO (no flames please!) Well now . . . 'taint 'zactly so . . . You need to experience what happens when you put a really LOUD QRO
I don't feel I am in danger when I climb my towers. I am very careful and safe. I don't know if you are serious about selling blood, but I have always given mine away for free to the Red Cross. Stupi
Gosh, and here I was about to list a real nice pair of wooden blocks but I guess I will have to put them on eBay instead . . . Stan w7niWteleport.com -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towerta
To: <towertalk@contesting.com> I believe the number is 2 1/16". This means you need the shim it 1/32 of an inch at both places the mast touches the bell housing. I use two narrow strips of 1/32 alum
Hi Towertalkers, I just stocked up again on common Rohn Harware. I had put in a small stock a couple of months ago and let you guys know I had it. I sold it all in just a couple of weeks, so I bought
existing unexpired laws with newer laws of more depth, breadth, and personal meddling stupidity. be expanded into a "new and improved" set of 64 page rules "proposed" new rules section that would ad
Hi Larry, I think the use of a pipe top (45AG3) rather than a flat top should solve all those problems. If you really need a thrust bearing, it can be mounted on a rotator shelf. True, they aren't v
Well, Greg, if it is a Rohn thrust bearing, that is exactly what it is for: to hold the weight of the mast and antenna. Stan w7ni@teleport.com -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.h
My masts were .218 wall bare steel when I got them in 1971. They were coated with a rather heavy black grease, inside and outside. I cleaned the grease off the outside with a rag soaked in common pai
Hi Dick, I'm not trying to critcize your critism either, but I am not sure I am seeing all you are seeing in the Rohn book. Regarding the use of pier pins vs imbedding section in concrete, I see, sp
Hi Matt, My name's not Steve, but I have an opinion anyway. The problem with an extra shelf in 25G is that a regluar Rohn AS25G shelf won't fit any where there is diagonal braces on the tower. This
I think you are right. It does that, too. Stan w7ni@teleport.com _________________________________ To: <towertalk@contesting.com> http://www.contesting.com/km9p/searchContent-Type: text/plain; charse
Hi Steve, Rotator vertical "preload" is a topic I have only heard discussed here and then only by you, I think. In practice, I have never been concerned about it and gnerally what I do is lower the
Hi Dick, I'm a little late in reading this and I have not had a chance to read all the other comments you may have gotten on it so everything I have to say may be old info now, but here goes anyway.
Hi Dale, The pointy top does not come with a rotator shelf, but the flat top needs TWO of them. One to mount the rotator on and the other one to provide a support point to keep the mast vertical whi
So Bob, what IS the right rotator plate and where do you get one? (Rohn does not make one that will do this . . . ) Stan w7ni@teleport.com -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html
As Steve says, the Ham IV will fit in a Rohn 25G section, but once you get it in there, it will not slide freely up and down the tower. The bell housing is too large to get past the horizontal brace
. . . and people STILL want to put up crankups . . . Oh, well . . . Stan w7ni@teleport.com -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administra
Steve, Wasn't that study done only on really tall towers like 500 or 600 feet or even taller? (Big commercial broadcast towers.) I think W7AGQ got a copy of that study (or a similar one) and there w
That may be OK in your installation, but not in mine. I would not trust just a thrust bearing on top of the tower to hold a mast with anything on it in a vertcial position. Stan w7ni1teleport.com --