Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:55:51 -0400
Hi Dan, I did a quick look around and only found info on the AR-30. The controls may be the same for old and new rotators. Give it a look: http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/cde/ 73, Jon Pearl - W4ABC w
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:24:03 -0400
I saw this ad, earlier this month. I sent a letter to my Congressman asking how it was this didn't somehow qualify as waste, fraud or abuse of our wallets? 73, Jon Pearl - W4ABC www.w4abc.com It look
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:43:43 -0400
Hi Steve, Agreed! There's another angle, too... I have a VE3 ham buddy who used to come down to Florida every year to vacation over the winter months. One winter he brought a boatload of recently pul
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:20:19 -0400
Hi Tony, If you haven't already fashioned a rotator plate to ride the track, IIX makes one for pole mounting called the RM-2 Pole/Building Mount - http://www.w9iix.com/mounts.htm 73, Jon Pearl - W4AB
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:29:03 -0400
...and here's the *answer* that I received, today: August 30, 2013 Thank you for letting me know of your concerns regarding the way in which the Department of Defense (DOD) disposes of certain surplu
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:50:04 -0400
Hi Jim, For the past few years I've used a product called Never-Seez Regular Grade with great success on all of my outdoors fasteners. I'm surrounded by water. I've got the Gulf of Mexico to the west
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:19:44 -0400
Hi Rex, There are several Youtube videos on the subject (not all affixed to guy wires). I performed a search for 'big grip dead ends for guy wire' and here is an example of one of the videos at the t
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 16:09:19 -0500
Hi Larry, Yes... you can stack with the stacking version. I've included a link to mine sitting on the bench. There's a notch at the top of the large plate by the handy talkie. The notch allows for fo
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 09:30:00 -0500
Hi Jim, One of the better manufacturer sites giving some insight into the choices available to you for a given job at hand is the Dutton-Lainson Company <http://www.dutton-lainson.com/categories.php?
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:51:22 -0400
Hi Gerald, Have you given any consideration to a worm gear drive? Dutton-Lainson lists several conventional 'brake' style hand winches on their site but they also offer several worm gear styles. WG20
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:50:51 -0400
Hi Rick, et al, Owing to the high angles at which the worm and spur gear are cut and caused to mesh in a self-locking worm gear set, a fair amount of friction is inevitable. And 'yes' they have to me
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:46:42 -0400
Then I would defer to you. While my contribution was to do a little background digging - you have direct knowledge. Now if they only produced those gears in bronze. 73, Rick. Jon Pearl - W4ABC www.w4
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:02:49 -0400
Hi Patrick, Not being a mechanical engineer, I knew what I wanted to say in response to you, but I didn't know how to express it. It's not the ratio, but the way the gear teeth mesh that determines w
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:52:23 -0400
Hi Steve, I was just there so rest assured, it's still with us... The link to "*TowerTalk -- Tower and HF antenna construction topics"* is usually positioned at the bottom of each TT email. In the ev
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:08:47 -0400
Funny... I just had this very same conversation concerning loaded masts on folded over towers with Mike, VE3YF. Rather than using a completely empty rotor plate just above the rotor, I'm going to bol
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:49:00 -0400
Hi Gary, I used this method a few years back and found that it worked very quickly. If you use an appropriately sized female garden hose repair coupler, such as http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ray-Padula-
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 12:26:03 -0400
Hi Ty, I just happen to have a KT-36XA balun and balun straps for you to peruse. These straps are not plated. They're bare aluminum - presumable T6-6061. These articles are from a NIB KT-36XA that wa
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 17:43:09 -0400
Hi Patrick, I'm on the Gulf coast of Florida and I'm surrounded on three sides by salt water. I use Bostik brand Never Sees 'Regular Grade' lubricant http://www.bostik-us.com/sites/default/files/NSRe
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 12:35:11 -0400
Hi Patrick, All understood. I wasn't piling on, rather a just bit late at the switch. I had prepared my email in response to your earlier email but forgot to hit 'send'. When I came back in the house
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:32:51 -0400
I Clay, I have no personal experience with this product, but I think this is what you're looking for: RM-2 Pole/Building Mount - http://www.w9iix.com/mounts.htm 73, Jon Pearl - W4ABC www.w4abc.com On