TT: This would be a perfect application for a Skypecast Meeting. A new free service from Skype.com, It alllows moderated or unmoderated distance meetings on any topic, broadcast to up to 100 people,
Cable TV Companies are good sources..As mentioned, they will often give cable ends away, but recently, the local CATV company has been saving ends for a scrap metals dealer who takes them away. Anoth
Folks: I picked up some years ago, a US Coast Guard anodized aluminum vertical radiator that stood for decades next to the ocean. It is incredibly versatile, mostly due to its exteme lightness. It st
How about an industrial grade high pressure washer, with a flat fan nozzle, for cutting through grass and soil? Would that work? 73, DX, de Pat AA6EG aa6eg@hotmail.com; Skype: Sparky599 "Verizon has
I traced the originator of The true north query, back to Bruce, WA3AFS.... Found his Address via qrz.com, of 260 New Salem South Road, Voorheesville NY. 12186. Assuming that is his tower location, Al
Re: Where to get, and with what to Crimp Tower Cable: I visited a Marine Supply house that had the copper or other metal swage fittings, Typical: ( http://www.imakerope.com/products.asp?catid=680 ) a
Hello Tom, That stuff is getting harder to find. Used to be CATV companies locally gave free reign to hams locally to pick through the piles of spool ends; Now local CATV Comapnies often say no to ha
Hello Greg, Here is an out of the box think on your problem. I got a Coast Guard aluminum anodized 90 ft radiator that was removed from the Coast Guard station in Monterey, for free. An old navaid n
Hello Justin, Don't have an answer, but a question. Is the small footprint triangular concrete pad that we see, the same area as the overall footing? Or does the base broaden out under ground? If tha
I saw in the film, shadows, showing the camera crew high up on a couple of adjacent towers that the film never features. However, there is some large relative horizontal movement of the camera I can
Interesting conversation, motivated me to to google coax peak power average power and got a lot of interesting stuff: http://www.psibroadcast.com/coax-engelec.asp http://www.astrolab.com/10.asp http:
Scott, WA6LIE, in Centeral California has up an internet remote, with a Yaesu FT 857, using Skype, and Ham Radio Deluxe (free software) seems almost plug and play. Have used it, in a basic mode, dont
Hello Ed, Lots of brain trust here to help you. To tailor a good answer, some questons: 1. What kind of operating targets do you want? Local? Stateside? DX? Europe? Asia? 2. How high above ground are
(Snip).. Hmmmmm..... I just stumbled across Behringer recently on the web... they have a good looking web site, and a really good looking product line whose exremely low prices seemed too good to be
Hello John, Here are some good graphics sites that show declinations for most anywhere... In your case, at Aruba, True North is 9-10 degrees counterclockwise on the compass rose from magnetic north (
For a lot of good information go to http://www.Google.com and use the quoted word combo: "wind generator towers" You get a wealth of infomation that ties together relationships between cost, power, w
Oh Boy....lots of different good ways to solder a PL 259... I've done them many ways, and encourage all to do them in the way that works for you... That said, I use an ancient, American Beauty 100 wa
Does it take special connectors (I found the tools) Can you use standard PL-259s with a special tool did a web search but no pages popped up on how to ? Enlighten me. Im intrigued in the no solder (e
Paladin makes numerous Crimping tools, including a basic ratcheting crimp frame, to which are attached appropriate Dies for the various sizes of crimping done, includiing all varieties of coax, both
(SNIP) Waldom, who also makes various small electronic hardware, (screws, terminals,etc) was the vendor for speaker parts for Speaker reconing shops. I used to have a shop. The Waldom speaker replac