Filing for Bankruptcy is not going out of business; in fact, it's purpose is precisely to let the business continue operations while it resolves its financial issues. We have lots of licensees of our
Hang some NE2 neon bulbs on the beam elements - they'll light up when you transmit! Barry, W5GN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:
Hang some NE2 neon bulbs on the beam elements - they'll light up when you transmit! Barry, W5GN _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Tow
Using the nomograph in the ARRL Antenna Book, which only goes up to a SPAN of 1000 feet (and only after an hour did I see that "SPAN" is one HALF the distance between end points), I can't find any wi
Run these specs through your nomographs... 12 ga insulated copperweld at 22 lbs per 1000' with a breaking strength of 900lbs come-alongs,etc? or 10 ga insulated copperweld at 35 lbs per 1000' with a
Wow, do I appreciate the quantity and quality of the responses to my first post to TowerTalk; I assure you all this is not a philosophical query, but a serious plan to build this antenna. I had hoped
If you havent bought the Remote control, unit, yet, don't. I recommend that you will never want to be away from the base of the tower when it goes up or down, so you can stop it when something goes w
I don't think there is any such thing as a center-fed Zepp. My 1926 ARRL Handbook shows the "Zeppelin" System of Voltage Feed, using a two-wire feed line, with one wire "Dead Ended" at the End Feed p
If I've understood this track, a sloper is just a way of feeding the tower it is connected to, and the radiation pattern, good or bad, is controlled by the tower and what's on it, and not the sloper
I was happy to pay $29 for hardware pieces and pay a $70 reward for a brilliant and simple design that worked very well and came with spare yellow weights! Shooting from the small cleared area behind
In honor of my 96 year-old Father, alive and well and a Division Manager with Bartlett Tree Experts for 60 years, I'll share his advice on tree companies: Make sure the tree man has insurance; there
I am not an insurance expert, but you want a real company with a business liability coverage, often called an "Umbrella" Policy", usually in $500,000 or $1,000,000 face values for small businesses. S
This collar is a locking eccentric and it has a hole in the side for a pin wrench (or whatever) to tighten it. This centers it automatically in the bearing. Don't throw it away - just make it work. I
You can always wrap the mast with aluminum foil and tape and use it as a vertical antenna. I recall great success using the $4.00 "Catfish Special", a 2 element yagi for 15 meters from 1956 or so, wi
I believe there is some evidence that some cancer clusters near power lines were caused not by electric nor magnetic fields, but due to the release into the air of pcbs after lightning strikes that e
Measure the time to raise, divide by the delta-height, and use a stopwatch to raise or lower; I see about 10 feet per minute, so I can be pretty precise. 73 Barry, W5GN ______________________________
I had a wonderpole I pulled out of the dirt (with a portable engine hoist, lots of water, after digging down to the first set of "flanges/rocket wings/" to sling the cable around), and put it back in
Our antennas (visible at http://www.mxg.com) cross the property line between the two adjacent houses we have owned since 1988. This past July we were cited by a City of Dallas Building Inspector (who
I can answer for the City of Dallas; there is a very strong ordinance that supports amateur radio towers, and provided you comply with all of the required setbacks and paper work, you can go to 90 fe
I found significant interaction between a 40 meter rotatable dipole and a 40 meter 2-el beam whose centers were 65 feet apart, on a N-S line. Rotating the Dipole significantly altered the SWR of the