ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- In my 50 years in electronics, I have never heard that. What is your source? 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _____________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- If you are concerned about getting an exact 50 ohms at the feedpoint, a simple L-network will do it for you. See any ARRL handbook or Antenna book. Also, I stron
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I climb my 80 foot tower without a qualm, but climbing a 35 foot ladder is worse than any "E" ride at Disneyland. More power to those who can. 73, Bill W6WRT ___
The subject line is absolutely priceless. :-) 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contestin
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Yep, those are all great subjects Steve, but you might want to back off on the meds just a leeeeetle bit. :-) 73, Bill W6WRT ____________________________________
IGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Probably something like this: "I'm glad I was only on the first rung". 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _____________________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Your local hobby shop will have brass strips of that dimension that would work fine. I have used them to make taps for a tank coil. Carefully bend it around the
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:58:02 -0500, "WA3GIN" <wa3gin@comcast.net> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- What wire sizes are they suitable for? 73, Bill W6WRT __________________________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- They are great in all respects but one: They are steel and should not have inductors in them unless you find a really large one that you can space the inductors
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- When I put up my 80-foot self supporting tower, I bolted the first section to the stubs and built a framework to suspend that in mid-air over the hole. I plumbed
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Have you looked at the pattern of your antenna with EZNEC? With the apex at 1/4 wavelength and an apex angle of 90 degrees, an inverted vee is almost perfectly o
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I agree with Norm. I had a Cubex four element quad up for six years, fed at the bottom, and noticed no problems. A great antenna, by the way, but no fun to fix w
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I recommend the kind of RTV sold at pet stores for sealing glass aquariums. Totally waterproof (of course!) and free of the acid smell in other RTVs. I figure an
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- If you suspect you have both stainless and non-stainless hose clamps, you can use a magnet to tell the difference. Good quality stainless is non-magnetic. Change
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Definetly don't buy them. Ask any salt-water sailor how good the magnetic ones are. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ ______________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Rope for anchoring a boat is deliberately quite stretchy, not a good thing for guying unless it is a very small mast. 73, Bill W6WRT ____________________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Good news indeed. I was fortunate enough to go on a tour of the KFI transmitting facility a few months before the accident. Since I live about 120 miles away, th
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Well, yes and no. If the radials are laid directly on the earth, length is much less critical than if they were up in the air, as in a counterpoise. The missing
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- The difference is no doubt due to differences in ground conductivity. If you live over highly conductive ground, the number of radials would have less impact. Ov
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I wish he'd spent the money mounting a DXPedition to Yemen. :-) 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ __________________________________