So do Trylon: http://www.trylon.com/safetyclimb/safetyclimb.asp . Scroll down to the bottom of this page to Retro Fits to see the connectors needed to fasten a climbing rope to a Trylon Titan's angle
Ed: One of the places you can use for planning as well as, later, maintaining, your tower is N1LO's web page: http://www.qsl.net/n1lo/tower_ref.pdf . Probably the most comprehensive written reference
Eric et al: That same LPDA antenna was spec'ed by VOA for installation at their proposed relay site in the Negev Desert in Israel in the late 80s. (I was working for the consulting firm that had the
John: Ive never sealed an outside coax connector only with filled HS tubing. But let me offer this suggestion: Wrap the connector with electrical tape such as Scotch 33 or 88, THEN apply the tubing.
Roger: What brand name green bulbs do you use? I've read on other reflectors that some names are better (quieter) than others. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F _______________________________________________ ___
TT: I picked up (but didn't purchase) a CFL bulb package the other day and read that the gizmo contains mercury. The package simply advised something along the lines of, <Dispose of in accordance wit
Dick: I bought my Poly's from The RF Connection (www.therfc.com ). But they are not made to be mounted exposed to the weather. I, like many others here on TowerTalk, mounted my Poly's in a steel box
TT: If I had solid coax runs from the antennas to my shack, rather than an intervening coax switch at the tower, I'd put my Poly's outside my shack on the SPG panel. However, as I mentioned in my fir
Bob: Just to add fuel to the fire: W1BB, the Old Man of Topband, used a silo in Massachusetts, right on the coast, as a support for a wire beam on 160M. He hung two inverted-Vee wire dipoles of appro
TT: Now's a good time in the discussion to refer ya'll to the QST August 1996 article titled: Install a House-Bracketed Tower -- the Right Way!, by K1KP. Tony's thesis is along the lines of house bra
Larry: You can use what folks who remove their towers' rotators for maintenance use to keep the mast stationary. Bolt two long steel angles to the mast with muffler clamps. Make the angles long enoug
Jeff: Cadweld is intended as a buriable ground connection as-is. Do it right, cover with dirt and get on the air. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F Should one weatherproof (i.e., tape) cadweld connections (Cu to
Dick: Forms are used all the time in commercial applications, BUT... 1. Make sure the operator compacts the backfilled dirt in layers about six inches deep at a time. Otherwise you won't really have
Eric: My comments embedded within your e-mail, below. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F I have an Ameritron RCS-8V I'd like to mount, along with lightning arrestors, inside a weatherproof box that will go on the
Alex: I use a pipe cutter, available at any hardware store, to cut aluminum tubing for Yagis, etc. It works really well with minimal effort and minimal risk of off-angle cutting as I have done with h
Ed: It sounds as if option two, the sloper wire, is your best bet, given the constraints of your installation. In my 1/3 acre suburban lot I have a shunt-fed Trylon 64-footer operating on 160M and a
Larry et al: When I ordered my connectors from Harger (www.harger.com ) back in 2001, I ordered directly from the factory. I was able to buy the few connectors I needed for my own use; there was no m
Charles: Merry Christmas back at ya. For installations in bedrock, you can use rock anchors such as shown on this page from the Trylon tower web site: http://www.trylon.com/lightdutytowers/selfsuppor
TT: I just got back on the ground from repairing a broken 160M shunt wire on my tower. (FYI - the shunt feed showed infinite SWR in the shack and out at the tower I found one of the two shunt wires w
TT: For more background info on the development of SS technology, Google <Hedy Antheil, developed and were granted a patent for an early form of frequency-hopping encryption to provide anti-jamming f