yard. the tower. planned Sure - the Trylon Titan will fit the bill FB. It's bolted together and I have never seen anything loosen up on one. Crank-ups have lots of moving parts and the problem with t
out There are two approaches: Mister Nice-guy and Mister Hands-off. Mr. N goes around to the neighbors campaigning for his tower/antenna, selling, cajoling, and trying to win them over to his side wi
Not really. As long as there are good clamps or swages at the terminations, it should be FB. Why do you think it's a "ditm"? The only red flag to me would be if he used totally wrong (i.e. plastic co
Interesting. Can anyone tell me what SDS stands for? An adapter that I couldn't live without is an electric drill chuck adapter to 3/8" socket drive - six-sided on one end and 3/8" socket drive on th
You cannot run cables inside a typical crank-up - there's almost no room for them plus your chances of chopping the cable by the tower as it's running up or down is quite high. Uh...I'll surmise just
how antennas A novel east coast idea via K3LR years ago is to put a reflector wire on the ground under the low dipole. Cheap and easy way to get some more dB in the air. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TEC
Is it my imagination or are the cable clamps in the illustration BACKWARDS? More good engineering from the people that brought you the Hazer? <A HREF="http://www.glenmartin.com/catalog/page18.html">
Typically the added ground capacitance lowers the frequency of antennas close to the ground. A typical 40M antenna might resonate at 6.700 on the ground and be fine in the air. Mostly the same effect
horse. Despite the fact that nobody uses cable clamps anymore, here goes. The end of the wire that's bent back is called the 'dead' end since there is no tension on it. The side that goes to the towe
From Jeff, K1ZM: Cushcraft 20M & 10M Monobanders XM520 and XM510. Anybody got one (1) of each they might be willing to part with? Willing to pay a good price. Please email JEFF at K1ZM@aol.com Tks fo
ft) Okay, let's get a little more basic. What's your county windspeed rating? If you don't know, you can look it up at <A HREF="http://www.championradio.com">www.championradio.com</A> under Tech Note
There are two sets of painted cross-over marks on Preformed grips. The first one (closest to the termination loop) is for normal thimble-type installations. The second set is for installation with in
have The rotator shelf for the Trylon will be three feet below the top; allowing a foot for the rotator, there'll be two feet of mast in the tower and about eight feet sticking out. That's plenty of
looking - Tom, K5RC, has retired from the chromoly mast business. Champion Radio Products - <A HREF="http://www.championradio.com"> www.championradio.com</A> - is now happy to offer them with the sam