Why would Steve's 240 foot person bother climbing at all? Couldn't he just bend over half-way and do whatever has to be done? My own pucker story. I tried climbing VE7IN's 120 ft tower but chickened
If you can find it, the Eighth edition of the ARRL Antenna book (1956) has about 5 pages on the Vee. Seems to me that ARRL publishes a wire antenna book but don't know if there is much on the Vee. Ma
Steve, Sure glad you clarified this. Was just getting set to coat all my wasps with polishing compound and send them up there so I wouldn't have to haul the old TH3 down again and do it myself. 73 de
Rick, please forgive me but I can't help the twisted humour. The folks here know a lot about Owl Antennas but I have never seen any mention of Geese. Don't think I should sign this.
Dick, Back when I was 20 or so I wanted to string a dipole from the top of the wooden telephone pole that was on the other side of the lane behind the house. I had a job with the local phone co. so I
Hi Don, Well, I have. I guess you guys weren't using the 3/16" yellow polypropylene rope from the local hardware store. I used some for tying down a tarp. One of the lines didn't any tension on it. N
Forgot to point out the tower debacle wasn't a knot or breakage problem. The nylon guys were still securely fastened at both ends. They just stretched. VE7FO
I often see suggestions on TT that hams typically over-engineer their antenna support installations. Fifty years ago I heard the definitive definition of engineer. It goes as follows, "An Engineer is
No, I'm not taking the LMR 400 to the beams. It will run between the Al plate with all the barrel connectors in the shack wall (an inside wall) and the Al plate with all the barrel connectors on the
Well, I threw this out there thinking that maybe a few people might be interested enough to bother wading through it. Seems that some TTers can't resist commenting on the agonies of their peers. Summ
Truly, we all want to know the truth (or at least as much of it as we can stand). Unfortunately, in American and Canadian commerce, truth is in short supply. Anyone with a pension fund with equity in
The following is quite long and is the work of a demented, anal-retentive paranoid. Ever since I joined TT 18 months ago I have been seeing cautions about house brackets. I have a flat roof with acce
Brett, I'm having difficulty visualizing this. Do you have a wire running from your roof to ground? Radials on the (big?) roof? Or do you just connect the coax shield to the bottom of the tower and f
Say.... if done right we could get away with smaller towers. Just suck in the boom and the elements and cut the wind load in half! We could use lighter rotators too. Of course, control box costs woul
Good grief! My response to statements like, "... don't have the yield strength for our masts" is, "Don't know where to find ink for the pen I was going to sign your cheque with."
Check out Nylo's site http://www.qsl.net/n1lo/tower.htm There is, somewhere, a pdf version of the Guyed Tower Topic Summary put together by, I believe, Pat Thurman. It has a Table of Contents which i