That might be the thing to do on a new installation. Unfortunately my radials are about two feet short for that. I decided to drive to my station and see what would happen by making Rick's suggested
Rick, Just finished one of the 80m 4 Square Towers. Before any change it was resonant at 3540 - R = 38.7. That was with two wires going from plate with female UHF connector to radial ring. Now I have
Doug, See if you can find larger rope. What you have might be OK but personally I would want to have a better base than I think you probably have, particularly because I envision that if it came over
The best 160m antenna I ever had was in 1981. I put up 192 feet of Rohn 25G tower and shunt fed it from the 60 foot level. That was a lot of insulators and wire and rope clamps for six levels of guyi
I have 70 feet of 45G at my current QTH. It has been guyed to the same two oak trees for over 40 years. There is either 3/8 or 1/2 inch wire rope around the trees through old garden hose with wire an
What you don't know doesn't hurt you, but... there are some who regularly use EZNEC and wonder why it is so cumbersome, why it doesn't have this feature or that, etc. In my opinion, anyone who actual
Bob, The Tornado coil is a motorized inductor that compresses or expands the coil to change inductance. It was developed by Seco-Systems, not N6BT. They are heavy and expensive but cool. To the best
Doug, Keep it moist in that hot weather. Put some grass or something over the top of it and spray it with water for a day or two. I know what the purists will say, but I have put up about 50 towers f
Gary, If I were you, instead of fighting it, I would buy galvanized (tapped oversize) hex nuts and use them instead of the locknuts. I don't know when they started using locknuts, but for decades the
I need some advice regarding what to do in a new construction before concrete is poured. It is a small house that will be elevated about 8.5 feet on concrete columns. Floor (8.5 feet above ground) wi
A vertical truss does very little regarding survivability in wind. It is absolutely necessary for survivability with significant ice load. It can do more harm than good with ice if the vertical attac
I know aluminum irrigation tubing has been used by many with success. Personally, I don't like it beacuse the wall thickness is so thin. This is just my suggestion: Buy two 24 foot lengths of 3.5 inc
I looked in Yagi Stress at what I had described. Should be good for about 58 MPH without guying. Not good enough, and as I said should be guyed. However, if you change the taper schedule to this it s
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Doug, In my opinion you should not lose an sleep over this project. If you were able to suspend yourself in mid air, you could probably put a slight amount of pressure with one hand (perhaps two fing
Doug, If that tower is actually so out of plumb that you have to fix it, this is what I would do: 1. Bend the legs just enough, within an inch of the bottom, that you can push the tower with signific
Doug, What Ed and Ron said is ABSOLUTELY the best advice... but you had already gotten that advice and decided you wanted perfect. None of us have seen your tower so we don't know what it looks like.
I am going to drive from Arkansas to Florida over the weekend. Going to Miami to buy stuff to go on a container to Carribean. I would like to include a self supporting aluminum tower - the heavier du
Steve, If you want to tram the antenna, in this case I would consider moving the top set of guy wires about 5-8 feet lower than where they are now and tighten them as if that's where they are suppose
Chris, You may be much happier, since you have 40 acres, putting up two towers. In addition to being less expensive than some of the options suggested, interaction will not be a problem, mast materia