Two questions (one prefaced by a comment). 1. Is there an easy way to get to the rotator when this tower is cranked down (short of winching just the inner section up)? 2. I cannot find a Hy-Gain ginp
Getting to old for ladders. Looking for a HyGain Raising/Lowering Fixture that was sold for use with the HG-70HD crankup tower (and probably other models). Sold as a HG-GP Gin Pole. Current HyGain (n
Looking for feasibility advice. Have one tower, a HyGain HG-70HD. Currently have a 7 el TH7DX tribander right at the tower top with a 3 el A3WS duobander 8 feet above it. No noticable interactions. H
Dale, I have a TRX80 set of instructions for the fixture and pictures of it from different views. Contact me at w7wll@arrl.net and let me know what you need. I also own on that I am preparing to setu
I'd like to start a new thread but around the lightning damage inputs many of you have made. I moved a few years ago from Portland OR (close to 0 lightning issues at the location I was in) to the cen
I live on the central OR coast, just a few hundred feet from the ocean. The cables on my HyGain HG-70HD are the original cables. When I installed the tower here on the coast, the guy at the fishing f
Another opinion and comment. Living on the ocean, I have put my trust in the cable riggers who service the fishing fleet out of the central OR coast port of Newport. They inspect my cables every year
I'm a couple hundred feet from the ocean in an area where there is almost constant onshore airflow carrying salt. The bee's wax on the crankup inner tower where the sections rub when extending and lo
It ain't towertalk unless you think your tower is going down. It does NOT call for an end to the world. No one really knows why the calendar does not continue. Scholars, scientists and mystics disagr
". . . It baffles me why manufacturer's keep making the same junk year in and out.... like TB-3/4's... W2AU baluns, BN-86 baluns, toy rotor's, lousy coax connectors you can't solder to, xcvr's with 1
I'm using the same antennas, with the A3WS 8 feet above the TH7DX. The TH7 is at 72 feet and performs well. I can usually always work what I hear. Maybe K4XS will chime in but we were having a discus
Hmmm, I do believe I was just put down! Being able to "work what you can hear" is an almost worthless criteria for judging an antenna, and for the life of me I can't understand why hams keep using it
A little late comment Steve, but you make a very good point. My HG-70HD came with the motor control option but I never bothered to install it. And, glad I did not. Last spring, after all the winter w
"Anyone use a bucket truck (like the CATV or Verizon van style) to raise a 100lb antenna and 200lb man? Would you consider that a safe move, or a crazy idea? " GREAT IDEA!! I used to lower the tower,
Good suggestions which I have tucked away in my Good Ideas folder for my fixed tower when it goes up. But with the old HyGain HG70HD I'm presently using there is very limited space between the rotor,
Some funny but great thoughts. On the serious side, if someone wants to climb your tower, all the signage in the world won't mean diddle. But if someone does climb the tower, even without your permis
Would anyone have a copy of HyGain TA-0124-D-001 (or later version if it exists) covering the pull down cables setup for the three HyGain crankups. And if anyone has this option installed would like
- - - Not sure what kind of SS cable you are specing Jim, but the SS cable available down here is rated at 6400 from one source and 6100 from another (the fleet rigger buys from both), NOT 4300. Agre
Recently I queried this site about 'positive pulldown cables' for theHyGain crankup towers, based upon some sketchy info I had been given. I received several replies, including some who were interest
Works for birds, the gulls here on the coast can't function upside down which is the position they end up in. Big problem though! 'Possums can climb the tower and they think the upside down position