Folks: We are de-mothballing the Jamesburg Earth Station. (Near Monterey CA) Gonna put the steerable 30 meter dish into Moonbounce service soon. The 20,000 square foot AT&T ground station central off
Folks: This is an oh, by the way, announcement: The earlier TT post about the Interior Hardware from the Jamesburg Earth Station should also be supplemented with the information that the site itself,
Folks: I came across an aerosol lubricant at the local car parts store, called Champion Chain Lube, that seems to be pretty good at many tower/antenna tasks.... Comes out of the can very fluid, penet
On occasion I have used an orbital sander, and am amazed at the power and energy it imparts to both the workpiece, and my hand. Harbor Freight has one on sale for $9.99....amazing. http://www.harborf
SNIP; Ohhh the memory of my first Leyden Jar...as an 12 year old, I got a Renwal "toy" electrostatic generator for christmas. Holy collectible toys Batman! see: http://i9.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/e6/f9/1
TT: A group of hams has to develop (to Have Developed) a safety system, and procedure to make safe an access ladder to the surface of a large steerable dish, shown below. All activity at the dish is
TT: I found a large reference, (>800 pages, .pdf) from the Military about grounding...pretty comprehensive... http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-061120-007.pdf 73, DX, de Pat AA6EG aa6
Google searches bring a lot of information to the table... One responder guessed that Lighting is a factor... it is... Overall numbers of bird mortality, if the numbers are right, show that it is abo
Hello Kelly, Could be a lot of things... Go to the ARRL site, and somewhere there is an RFI subsection that has the Navy Postgrad School Bible on Power line noise amelioration. Read through that....O
(Snip) AA6EG Adds: If you can find new cell site construction going on, check with the crews that do that. Each new site (at least around here) seems to have a complete package drop shipped in a ship
Another mystery sticky stuff I see at work, I dont know what it is, but it is VERY sticky. Much different surface texture, feel than the butyl stuff... A lot of the A&P mechanics keep a ball of it st
Neatsfoot Oil, derived from Rendered Cattle, or Mink Oil from Minks, are leather treatments/rejuvinators. Neetsfoot is sometimes cut with petoleum, which is not good for leather. Both are kind of exp
Hmmm....I brought it up, but find the window for inputting longitude only accepts 2 digits. I am at 121 longitude...... what gives? http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/asrn-within-radius.html 73, DX,
Folks: We are stymied in our work to bring the Jamesburg 30 meter dish back into operation. The dish is currently in the "stowed" position, pointing straight up. It is locked in that position by a 3"
Jim Asked: Hmmmmm...... Well perhaps one could put some sort of anmation into an otherwise inert owl, (sound, lights, vibration, or motion) that could be triggered by this Very cheap Radar Sensor fro
Folks: Some Comprehensive Grounding/Bonding references retrievable from the net: http://www.casa.gov.au/rules/1998casr/021/021c99.pdf http://www.casa.gov.au/rules/1998casr/021/021c99.htm Grounding/Bo
-- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I believe that going to crimp PL 259s, is the obvious way to go for speed and reiliability, but if you solder, here is my experience: 1. Use silver plated, teflon dielectric cone
Hey folks, Why not creaate, or use existing (see for example: http://groups.icq.com/groups/group_details.php?gid=12046998 ) Ham-Trucker forums to create a Coordination site, for trucker-hams to help
Folks: Has anyone heard of adding lead to concrete mixes, to increase weight/density? I just was told that the Jamesburg Earth Station, with huge amount of concrete and rebar required for the self su
Folks, I had a musician friend, who also happens to buy/sell/trade books visit the shack a couple of days back for a ragchew. I did not know his passion for book trading, until he saw my copy of Lapo