Use the caps and drill a weep hole for the water.... -- As a variation on the pot scrubber theme _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerT
Good info...but preaching to the choir won't do much for the Palmdale community. Send this camp fire stories to the Palmdale link, they'll make a difference. Be sure to include your career title if y
REF: San Diego, CA antenna restrictions thread of a few months ago. Here is one way to open up a productive dialogue with the local authorities, maybe not as much fun as YOUTUBE. What not to do: Don'
I feed mine with Dual LMR-400 to the rotor, then RG213 to a relay box that switches in one loop at a time. Feeding the loop with shielded 100ohm line I don't worry about chokes, etc. At the shack I h
Hi Folks, I was reading in an old antenna book that changing the diameter of a wire dipole from # 14 guage to # 6 would add 6db gain to the antenna. Was that a typo? Did they mean to say .6db? I use
Waterford Associates, Inc. www.agl.mag.com I'm trying to locate references to measuring tower resonances and detuning towers. I have the usual stuff in the ARRL Antenna Book, ON4UN's book and W8JI's
Hmmm, Doesn't look like that tower was spec'd to go 100ft, esp. with the number of antennas attached. Better Luck Next Time, wa3gin _______________________________________________ ___________________
Yup...I know. I took down 100ft of Rohn 25 for an old timer. He had a pair of stacked 8 element 2m beams on top and under them a Cushcraft A3. The tower was guided with aluminum ground wire at the 75
The hobby is just a sub-set of our society...no one should be surprised by personal opinions that resemble personal attacks... There is a wonderful invention similar to the VFO dial...it's called the
Hi Folks, I'm getting ready to purchase some wire clips and have found there are two types, malleable and drop forged. Is there some significant performance difference between the two? The price diff
Looking to purchase several used ICE bandpass filters. Model 403, 404, 405, 407. Please resonde direct. 73, dave wa3gin _______________________________________________ _______________________________
NOT REALLY, since I asked for "USED" filters -- several others seemed to be able to read the request w/o issue [-) _______________________________________________ ____________________________________
Folks can go to TESSCO and purchase gas tube arrestors inexpensively. IT is relatively easy to determine the right unit for your application. I recently purchased eight gas tubes to homebrew a rotor
Does anyone know whether a Harris RF 601 control head will interface with the RF 2601? In search of a control head for the RF2601 Please respond direct to wa3gin@comcast.net 73, dave wa3gin _________
Hi Folks, I'm in search of a an "old" Hy-Gain 203BA. Don't need the boom or balun. If you have one in the Northern VA area or will ship to 22485 please contact me direct wa3gin@comcast.net Thanks, da
I have a yahoo account, joined FLIKR and still need to be invited to see it, DUH. Maybe its a scam just to get people to join FLIKR, haha. _______________________________________________ ____________
Worked fine...thanks _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailma
I've wore out the print on my laptops delete key with this thread. Can't the list serve police just end this NOW...so we can get back to TOWERTALK stuff! Please! _____________________________________
I've made loops of smaller sizes from 1/2" PVC tubing used by TV cable companies to underground cable. The stuff works fine and one can join the ends using a short piece of dowel and silicon glue or