Yeah, and if you take one aspirin a day for 1200 months, you will live to be 100. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTal
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Red Yeah, makes a good dummy, but also makes a good antenna. I was once playing with a rig into a lightbulb and a guy about 100 miles away came back
Hi Bob On some roof's you have to be careful how you use them as all of the sections are not bonded together. A lot of the screws that are used to put the metal roofs on actually have a rubber gromm
Hi Al I'm not Bill, but your local cable company is a good place to start. Sometimes they have some leftovers on a spool that they can't use. One person suggested setting up a 'brown bottle' friendsh
Amen to that. I have found that just about every garage sale I go to has a ball of wire laying around for a nickle or so. I grab everyone I find :-) I have 3 40 meter verticals and an inverted L for
How true! I had a 3 element TH-3 up for a while. I never did care for how it worked so I took it down and made a 2 element 20 meter monobander (smaller antenna) out of it, which worked much better t
And just hope that it is not a spotted owl you are messing with or you will be spending some time in the Federal joint. Those critters have rights over any human here in Oregon. 73 Tom W7WHY Tom W7W
Actually, it was mentioned in the first 5 times this thread ran. Tom W7WHY Did everyone in the northern hemisphere forget about the North Star??? 73, Carl VE9OV ______________________________________
One quick way I used to measure my ground was to hook up the hot side of the plug on a lamp to to AC and the other side of the plug to my ground. Turn on the lamp and see how bright it glows. Gives
Much better, I think, to install a screw eye and If you are going to put in a screw eye, you need to put a 2x4 or something like that first, then hook the screw eye into that. I put some in some tree
Maybe lighten the load and get better gas milage?? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contes
Hi Wes The only problem I see with that is that if you have 8 inches of shaft on a screw eye, that is a lot to bend back and forth. Seems like it is a lot stronger if you can screw it right into the
Hi All When camping, I have an antenna that I take along to do some hamming while out in the toolies. What I have is a center fed antenna, about 100 feet long, using 300 ohm ribbon to feed it. Someti
Electrical tape can do the same thing if you just pull it to break it off instead of cutting it. Just pulling on it can really cinch it up tight. 73 Tom W7WHY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
That's right. Ask for "tag line." The local commercial fishermen use that and it is really strong and long lasting. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ ______________________
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Hi Joe First rotator (rotor?) I had here was a right angle gear and mast outside the shack with a steering wheel inside to turn the antenna. Even had a directional indicator :-) 73 Tom W7WHY ________
Wonder if that is a crank-up? :-) 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://l
HI All Can someone point me to a place where I can purchase an 80 meter trap, like the one in the Battle Creek Special. I have an 80 meter wire vertical in a tree here and would like to add on to it
Could there have been some computer tweaking of the video? You can do some pretty sneaky things nowadays. Maybe they were only 3 feet off the ground Tom W7WHY ________________________________________