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81. [TowerTalk] wooden poles....back to towers (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:11:23 -0400; brush/slash pile. road ties to old phone poles. it stinks. 73, Craig Clark, K1QX RADIOWARE AND RADIO BOOKSTORE PO BOX 209 RINDGE NH 03461 603 899 6957 WWW.RADIO-WARE.COM ____________________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-10/msg00129.html (6,963 bytes)
82. [TowerTalk] PL259 (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:00:14 -0400; This subject is like indigestion, the True North and Owl threads. It keeps coming back. I am pretty sure the connectors Tim, K3LR uses are from Andros in Rochester, NY. They are silver teflon and are; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-10/msg00226.html (7,401 bytes)
83. [TowerTalk] CONDUCTIVE GREASE (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:58:17 -0400; ALL of the conductive greases need to be under compression to work. With the ICE products, you have flakes of metal (Cu and/or Al) in grease suspension. In the tubs, they are not conductive. When app; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-10/msg00334.html (6,964 bytes)
84. [TowerTalk] connectors (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:09:35 -0500; I would not hesitate to recommend RF Industries connectors as a reasonable and well made alternative connector. www.rfindustries.com The RFC, Davis and I offer them as alternatives to Amphenol. 73, C; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-11/msg00461.html (6,714 bytes)
85. [TowerTalk] but............. (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:51:04 -0500; "In this case, it's the capacitor's current rating that is in question. Your 1 kW is 4.5 A @ 50 ohms, but it might be 3.2 A @ 100 ohms, or whatever. Same idea applies to voltage ratings. A corollary:; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-11/msg00540.html (7,013 bytes)
86. [TowerTalk] cleaning Flexweave (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:47:42 -0500; here's what is recommended by Davis RF FW Oxidation Cleanup: The great advantage of the 168 strands (# 14, more if the #12) is that it facilitates flexing and non-kinks. Fortunately it does not break; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-12/msg00420.html (7,608 bytes)
87. [TowerTalk] Maine Winters (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:02:33 -0500; I know LXC is going to stop this thread soon. But I have to chime in as I lived in Maine for four years (66-70) and would go back in a nano-second if I didn't live in my second choice heaven, NH. Mai; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-01/msg00285.html (10,329 bytes)
88. [TowerTalk] RG6 compression connectors (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:36:46 -0500; Just a thought but make sure you are not using quad shield connectors on dual shield cable. A properly installed connector on the appropriate RG6 should be a rock solid installation. Quad shield conn; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-01/msg00394.html (7,267 bytes)
89. [TowerTalk] RTV (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:02:00 -0500; GE 162 73, Craig Clark, K1QX RADIOWARE AND RADIO BOOKSTORE PO BOX 209 RINDGE NH 03461 603 899 6957 WWW.RADIO-WARE.COM _______________________________________________ _________________________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-02/msg00041.html (6,491 bytes)
90. [TowerTalk] Laport Book (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:23:43 -0500; Thirty years ago, Laport had a copyright settlement with a Chinese publisher where he got copies of his book an sold autographed copies through a QST classified ad. I was lucky enough to get one of; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-02/msg00143.html (7,394 bytes)
91. [TowerTalk] W6AM book (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:51:33 -0400; In case you want a copy, I bought from Vestal and sold at "close out" prices a lot of copies at Dayton a number of years ago. HRO may have them. Other source would be Don's company Wallace and Walla; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-04/msg00322.html (7,714 bytes)
92. [TowerTalk] connectors (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:03:01 -0400; Since I sell a lot of connectors to hams and commercial customers, I just have to comment. As was stated, you get what you pay for. I sell, use and recommend Amphenol 83-1SP PL259 connectors. They h; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-05/msg00484.html (7,350 bytes)
93. [TowerTalk] rope alternatives (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:02:21 -0400; saltwater monofilament fishing line would be another alternative. 73, Craig Clark, K1QX RADIOWARE AND RADIO BOOKSTORE PO BOX 209 RINDGE NH 03461 603 899 6957 WWW.RADIO-WARE.COM _____________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00456.html (7,216 bytes)
94. [TowerTalk] Bypassing lines (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:00:29 -0400; I do nothing. My grounded shunt fed 160 tower has coax and rotor lines going to the top. They lay on the ground and then run up the tower. All lightning protection is done on a bulkhead before house; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00642.html (7,007 bytes)
95. [TowerTalk] positive pull down for Tri-ex towers (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:11:19 -0400; Yes................maybe. I had a Triex W-67 and found that when the tower was fully extended, the top section would bind during a "pull down" and not retract. The top cable would go slack and the s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-07/msg00245.html (8,176 bytes)
96. [TowerTalk] NEW TOOL (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:49:26 -0400; I make cable assemblies every day for customers and I also have arthritis in my hands. After a day of making cables, my hands hurt. Here's a new tool from DX Engineering I like very much! http://www.; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-07/msg00252.html (7,660 bytes)
97. [TowerTalk] positive pull down for Tri-ex towers (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:01:26 -0400; I wish I still had the tower and could measure it for you but the top section had a definite "list" when the tower was fully extended. There was only a couple of feet of the top section inside the s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-07/msg00259.html (9,453 bytes)
98. Re: [TowerTalk] positive pull down for Tri-ex towers (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:23 -0400; Bob, Not completely true. The "however" is you have a manual positive pull down system. I agree that you cannot retrofit the same system as on the larger towers that are designed with a positive syst; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-07/msg00269.html (9,721 bytes)
99. [TowerTalk] REMOTE ANTENNA SWITCH (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:14:09 -0400; COMTEK has a nice switch too. In the used market you might also see Heath, Drake and W0MLY units. I'd stay away from the Heath with the stepper motor. 73, Craig Clark, K1QX RADIOWARE AND RADIO BOOKST; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00369.html (6,707 bytes)
100. [TowerTalk] Feeding towers (score: 1): Author: Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:48:15 -0400; DeMaw wrote about this technique in QST circa 1974. Ron Nott from Cortan did the same in HR (I think.) I have been using one since 1980 in uni-pole configuration. I match the antenna with a 50 to 200; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00522.html (6,907 bytes)

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