On 4/8/2014 4:25 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote: I just read the Joel Hallas, W1ZR article - "The 43 foot vertical monopole - What's the magic?". It was very interesting! The coax losses are worse than I im
HI All Is there a lot of difference between a vertical long wire antenna and a regular vertical GP? Last year when camping I used a 65 foot piece of wire up into a tree, hooked directly to the output
Well, I got bounced with a 'frontier.com' address. Guess it will get taken care of somehow. Just wonder why all the other yahoo groups I am on are not bouncing. 73 Tom W7WHY _________________________
WTH IS GOING ON! This has got to stop. These emails are coming off this list, they have the same subjects from Towertalk. Last night I KNOW the n4jbk email from the mast slipping thread was spewing p
Well - I got one today. According the the properties it came from Rochester NY. They must be coming from all over. 73 Tom W7WHY Well I just got one from Stacy with this Towertalk topic. Big red X thr
Hi Matt Isn't that effect present in any antenna (except maybe a vertical)? If you put up a dipole, there are 2 main lobes and off the ends is a big null. I just don't see any antenna that is going t
Hi All What determines the quality of a coax bandpass stub? I found about half a spool of RG-6 at the local Goodwill store here and it seems like it is pretty good coax. It has a triple shield - foil
Why spend all that time building verticals with extensive radial systems if all you need to do is put one up with 4 radials and just switch the radial in in the direction you are trying to work? Gues
Seems like the Step is a nice antenna as the element lengths are all correct per band, but how about spacing between elements. Just doesn't seem that there could be a sweet spot that is perfect for e
I actually had a Gotham 10/15/20 meter quad up for quite a while. It worked very good for me. I had it on a 30 telescoping mast and a bad windstorm took it down after about 4 years. I know everyone s
I recently put up a dipole for 80 and used some RG-6 CATV coax to feed it. Good news is that I cut it for 3550 and the SWR is about 1.3:1 there. Bad news is that it stays pretty much the same all the
I also got a message somewhat like that but it was worded different. Same intent. Yep - think someone's been hacked. 73 Tom W7WHY 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ ________
The coax run is about 90 feet or so - maybe 100. One other thing - the wire I am using is some CAT 5 cable and it has 6 wires in it. I just stripped and wrapped the wires on the end where I hooked th
I have 3 verticals in the woods next to my house. One is a 160 'L', one is a vertical 40 meter dipole, and one is an 80 meter elevated vertical with the base up about 6 feet. They all seem to work ju
Still climb my tower. It is about 30 feet cranked up and 15 feet cranked down. Still get shaky when on it. (No - I don't climb it with the top extended) :-) 73 Tom W7WHY My wife wants to know how may
I noticed the one guy was smoking a cigarette. Doesn't he know that smoking is dangerous :-) 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _____________________________________________
Doug - how can you free climb and not have only one hand on the tower? Every time you release your hand to move it up the tower you only have one hand on the tower. What if that hand slips? That soun
Hi Steve The stuff is called .Ospho.' I worked on the river here for Weyerheauser for 32 years and we used to use this stuff for removing rust. After the rust is gone, it coats it with a covering you
Hi David When I go camping, I have a wire antenna that I use with my setup. It is about 100 feet of wire fed in the center with ladder line. Sometimes I have a camp spot that doesn't allow me to put
I have 4 radios, 6 antenna tuners, 9 antennas, 2 amplifiers and not a single PP here in my shack. So far I've been able to survive without using them. 73 Tom W7WHY Perry K4PWO What am I missing about