If you have trees, a slingshot or air cannon is an easy peasy way to get wires in the air. Al AB2ZY This is a request for opinions. I am thinking about putting up a wire antenna. At my age (81) I hav
I have a short tower bracketed to the house adjacent to my shack. See QRZ page. C3, 6M3 and 2M7. I have a low frequency noise when the wind blows and I suspect the C3 is the source. Sounds like an ai
I guess I have been laboring under the illusion that an antenna is the most resistant to damage when the boom is parallel to the wind direction. Strong winds here are predominantly from the west, so
I appreciate all the suggestions. I dont think isolating the tower from the house is possible. Yes, I can slip some rubber or other material between the bracket and the house, but I probably over-eng
Around the outside is considerably easier as well. The antenna was assembled on the ground and hoisted into place with me alone on a bucket lift. Getting to the element ends would require either a lo
Still have a foot of snow on the ground, so I'm not quite ready to climb yet. See photos on QRZ page. I have 3 antennas on a 10' mast sticking a total of 8' out the top of the tower. From top to bott
Gear puller. If it is tight enough to require heat for extraction, I find that a propane torch does not generate enough differential heating between the part you want to remove and the thing it is st
Thanks to all for the help! To make a long story short, this setup was what I could do without a zoning variance, which I'm saving for a time in the near future when I have more land and will put som
Every connector and splice is a potential point of failure. IMO don't break lines to add them unless you really need them. The newer Ham IVs use a Cinch Jones plug on a pigtail. While the wire juncti
You could always buy/fabricate a platform like this: https://www.ispsupplies.com/Amerite-AME-25-WP. This one is specific to 25G type sections, but you get the drift. Al AB2ZY --Original Message-- Fro
K9AY? It isn't as good as a beverage, but it takes up 5% of the space yet is still pretty darn good. Al AB2ZY I am installing a shunt feed to my tower for 160 transmitting. Interested in a 160 receiv
The directivity of a K9AY, if I understand the theory, drops as the skywave angle increases. On the BCB I can completely null out one of two stations on the same frequency as long as one of them is m
1.875 in (1 7/8") is 47.625 mm. Al AB2ZY Ugh! Correction, reading the mm wrong, it looks like it should be 59mm! sorry about that! Charles "Ed' K5OF _______________________________________________ __
Is getting someone to help at one end or the other out of the question? Al AB2ZY Maybe climb up with a light CAT5 test cable and a data logger multimeter with serial to CAT5 adapter? I'll bet at low
Nope. First in line to play after the as is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bddnViI0r2I Al AB2ZY Can you spell CGI? Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ ____________
Did you look on te.com for info? You need the right tooling if you want a proper connection. Those wings are the strain relief for the wire insulation and the proper crimp tool will ensure that they
Technically the circumference does. If I did the math right in my head, that means the diameter changes faster than the coefficient. If I'm wrong, it isn't the first time. Nor the last. If I'm right,
The 1980s are over. Move it! Al AB2ZY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.cont
It depends on the beam. A 2 or 3 element HF antenna has a 3db beamwidth of, what, 60, 90 degrees or more (too lazy to look it up)? Certainly not < the 16 degrees that you would be concerned with. Al
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2FD_antenna ? There's a drawing at https://www.dropbox.com/s/8omfop6trejx211/IMG_20220523_144427650_BURST000_COVER.jpg?dl=0 despite my very limited artistic talent. -Ke