I'm getting ready to raise my first beam antenna and am wondering how to do the directional alignment. I know the magnetic declination here in the NW is about 20 degrees, and will adjust for that. Bu
Ah, thanks a lot fellows. My apologies, you are absolutely right, I fired off the message before I thought about checking the archives. I have enough to go on, so let's close this thread now. I reall
Thank you everyone who clued me in on how to align my beam to true North. To make the calculation a little easier, I wrote a little Visual Basic program that you are welcome to download from the foll
I've inherited a CDE Ham-II rotator and after playing with the thing to verify that it's still operational, I have a few ideas for improving the operation of the control box. It's interesting to see
Thanks for the info Jim. Yeah, I'm not questioning the reason for the brake switch, I was just wondering why one couldn't automate the "coasting" delay rather than relying on the operator to determin
Precisely what I was looking for! Thank you Jim! My order for a Rotor-EZ is on it's way. See, I KNEW someone had already figured this out. Thanks again Jim, and my apologies to the group if this is (
I probably should have qualified this posting by stating that I'm a complete idiot. One might think, "Why would anybody push both the CCW and CW rotation switches at the same time?". Well, a normal p
Thanks for the reference Steve, I'll keep his info on file for the future. I've already placed an order for the Rotor-EZ board, which is the best of all solutions I've seen so far. And yeah, per your
Well here it is just a little over a week later and I already have my Rotor-EZ installed. My, oh my, what a slick little upgrade to the old CDE conroller box! It works perfectly and I even wrote a li
The next time someone asks me this, I can tell them, "My Hi-Gain TH3-Mk3, up about 35 feet". We had the big raising today with a respectable turnout of the Mercer Island Radio Organization (MIRO) fel
Whoa, Nellie! I think you're missing the point George. David is not trying to "get away" with putting up a tower, he wants to set a precident for all of us on the Island. As members of MIRO, which is
And a very good point on your part as well George. Yes, it was with great trepidation that I finally talked with Mr. Scandola, the city planner. Just as you pointed out, it could have gone either way
Ok, yet again I haven't checked the archives, so please flame me for what is probably a fequently asked question. I have my spankin' new tower and TH3 beam up at long last and I was thinking that it
This may be a bit off topic for the TT group, my apologies if so. Please let me know where the most appropriate forum for this question would be. I've got a problem with RFI'ing one of my neighbors.
Thanks Roger, that's seems like very good advice to me. My neighbor doesn't care to have me in her house "inspecting" her home, and I don't particularly want to see it either. Who knows, maybe Norman
I hope you folks don't mind my bringing this subject up again, but I finally got some emperical results to this question. I received a lot of mixed opinions on whether to point the beam into the wind
MIke (K7IR) and John (WA7IR) Mertel came out to the monthly MIRO (Mercer Island Radio Operators) meeting this evening and gave us an impressive presentation of their SteppIR antenna. There's been som
If you haven't gotten your bid in for this yet, time is running out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3079057375&category=4672 What does this have to do with TowerTalk? Scroll all t
Amazing! Now I recall some of the discussions on Mike Landa now that many of you have reminded me of him. What a sleaze-ball! I found the article about this on CNN.com. I will forward the info on thi