I also recently had some Rohn 25 & 45 tower sections regalvanized. Reaming out the bolt holes was the only issue wrt to reassembling the sections. At 30 cents per pound for the regalvanizing, it's ce
Pat: For 3" irrigation tubing, I used EMT conduit bought at a local electrical supply house. At this time, I do not remember the exact size I used. However, one of the standard sizes fits very nicely
Peter: Yes, I recently did extensive modeling of half squares, as a parasitic array and as a driven array. I did my modeling using Eznec. I was looking for an improved 40 meter antenna for our contes
Brad: Tower limitations are pretty much town specific in NH. You'll find that towns in western counties such as Hillsborough and Cheshire are more accommodating than to the east. I lived in Cheshire
As I looked at the 2007 presentation, one item caught my eye. Vugraph the truss to the element. I've never seen this type of clamp before. Does anyone know its manufacturer? thanks 73 charlie, k1xx _
Dan: You can use the standard CATV pin connectors with an adapter. I used a standard CATV adapter to adapter from the pin to a standard N connector. It worked fine through 440. The only problem was t
Julio: I don't totally agree with all your statements regarding top rails. I've used them very successfully in the past. Since this goes back a few years, my memories a bit fuzzy. But, I seem to reca
One of the tricks I've used, admittedly on larger diameter (2 & 3") material, is anchoring one end of a piece of tubing to a tree and then a come along to the other end and another tree. I've been ab
Door's abt to close, so have to be brief. Of late, I have taken to semi-automatically extracting terrain data from Google Earth. I dump this info into an Excel spreadsheet for the number crunching. P
I do not recall if CATV pin connectors were made for 1/2 inch cable, but certainly they are for 3/4" hardline. I have seen pin connector adapters that go to type N. But they have the smaller, 75 ohm
I need to make up a mounting plate for an HDX-555 already installed at a station in the Caribbean. Does someone have the diameter of the legs in the top section as well as the spacing of the legs? I