To get the owl pointed correctly you need to line it up the shadow of wench (supported on a string) at high noon. You tell'em Jake.. my only burning question is to face the Owl ? Magnetic North or Tr
I'm pretty sure the mosely was reviewed in the K7LXC tribander report, I don't remember if the cubex was included. You should beg borrow steal or buy this report. My quad worked well in California an
Hi steve & Barrie, I have had one of the force 12 WARC-7 beams up for about 5 years now. Now that we have the club log thing, dxpeditions Are spending more and more time on the warc bands because man
Use em both, then keep the one that works the best. Probably your best bet will be to get an antenna switch and keep them both N4fx I am undecided if I should use a 1/2 wave dipole @ 125 feet or a 1/
Ted, I may have missed something and there may be several models of the skyhawk that I don't know about but the K7LXC/ N0AX tribander report rated the C31 considerably Higher than the skyhawk but did
I seem to remember somewhere, possibly in the early pvrc contest college video tape series) where W3LPL said for contesting, if you can only have ONE tower, make it a 100 footer. Your beam or beams w
I have operated at K4CG, W3PP and NR4M and all that is being said about a lower antenna for 10 and 15 is true, I have used bip and bop And as I recall, Franks statement was for a one tower station. W
Hi Ed, At W3PP in addition to a number of fixed towers we had 4 of the ab 577's and two of the 621's. For sure the 621 is more sturdy than the 577 rocket launcher. At W3PP We had A 6 element 10m beam
Well spoke Pete, my thoughts exactly, no real meat in those posts Chet n4fx Well, let's be clear - this message was nothing but a thinly disguised commercial advertisement. The gain number reminds me
Hi Tom, 20 years ago, I did mine by hand, using a pipe. On the new tower I found that I could no longer do that by myself. 6 years ago I rented one of the power augers from home depot. I got the trai
K4ZA in Charlotte NC. Does excellent work 73 Chet N4FX Anybody know who might do good tower work in central North Carolina? I need my Steppir antenna taken down so I can repair it, then put back up.
Hi wayne. My warc 7 has been up about 7 years. It was probably one of the last ones made by N6BT before he sold the company to some one in texas. This antenna performs as advertised And has been trou
Champion products carries everything you need or go directly to K7LXC. 73 Chet N4FX Rick, First and foremost, do NOT buy used climbing gear! Your life depends upon it. View the purchase of new gear a
This should probably have been posted to the wires reflector and return here when you are Ready to install the tower. Horses before towers? Not at this qth, you have your priorities reversed. <grin>
At age 72 I still climb my 90 foot & 60 foot AB-105 towers. I have also noticed that the tower gets higher every time I climb it. I would gladly give it up if we had some local climbers. 73 N4FX --Or
I have a C31, a c4 and here. Both perform well. That bit about elements touching did hit a nerve Here so a simple fix is to put an insulator between the 15 and 20 m elements to keep them from touchin
Not much to add to what Tim said. If you are going to an 18 foot boom, as opposed to 10 ft or 12 foot, why not get as many bands or elements on that boom while you are at it Without affecting the per
You do know that rohn makes a house bracket for 25G tower, right????? Chet n4fx --Original Message-- From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Brian Carling Sent: Thursda
Unless your tower is already red and white he sounds like a jerk, I would ask for the chapter and verse Of that regulation. All, I am working with the zoning director in my township. He asked if I co
For what its worth, I bought my 621 rocket launcher from K4TMC down in Raleigh north carolina about 3 hours from my qth. It was not in a shipping crate. I loaded the whole thing into my 1997 tacoma t