Gene mentioned the ouside light. The light is a motion sensor type. When I turned the inside switch off the noise disappeared. YAAAY!! Thanks to everyone who helped me on this one. You guys are A#1.
Hello fellow hams. Im trying to determine the most effective and least maintenance way to go about planning a tower installation. Keep in mind the tower will only hold a small 20 meter mono band and
I have a create 6 foot roof tower which i installed with 2x6 x10' long wood inside attic across rafters. I also slide 2x6 pieces vertically so when i bolted down the tower i would not pull the roof d
In my 20 years of antenna experience the (beast of all) baluns ever made was the centaur balun however there only producing baluns for the government . They were built like a panzer tank and can hand
I was thinking of purchasing the DX engineering radial plate and clamp priced at 73.00 , However the more i thought about it i was leary about the SS to copper connections and losses due to that diss
Hi to all, I have to opportnity to purchase 800 feet of 14 guage copper magnet wire. I need it for laying ground radials for my vertical antenna install. The price is right however i just want to con
hello to all on TT. Im waiting for this weather to become more seasonable for commencing this vertical antenna project. Anyway in regard to the radial plate installation i decided to go with the pref
Ok, thanks to all who responded to my last post. really appreciate all the help. I considered the ground bus system but didn't want to bury the aluminum due to it disintegrating in 5 years and above
Ok so tomorrow is the day i start this project. I have a 5' piece of 1 1/2" fence post pipe. It will be almost 4' cemented in gound and 14" above ground. I will have a zero five 43' vertical on the p
Post hole digging to install the pipe in ground for the 43' zero five vertical. I disregarded the 1.5 inch fence post and used the scedule 40 1.25 I.D gavanized pipe. When digging i was about 38" dow
I finally put the antenna up. Set up the radial plate and ran 85' of davis bury flex to the shack. The swr on 80 meters is 6.0:1 and on 40 meters it is 2.4:1. Making a contact on 80 1300 miles away m
I can't advise if the big ir is a better alternative however i do own the zero five with 60 ground radials from 28-60'. I will say on 40 meters past 1000 miles it plays excellent. Inside that distanc
It seems every time there's distant lightning and i go to disconnect the dipole i get this nasty discharge when i touch the pl-259. Im concerned it will eventually damage my tuner and or radio. The a
I hope someone can give me advice on a roof tower. It's a create 6 foot tower. It looks very strong so i was thinking of bolting it up on my 30' peaked roof with a hy-gain 203 BA 20 meter monoband ya
Im going to errect a 38' rohn tower next to my house. The house is brick exterior. Should i drill straight through the brick into the attic then put a 2x6 across or just used 6 anchors made for brick
any information on the 45G series self supporting tower. Im looking to put a light hy-gain 203BA 32 pound antenna with 5.3 sq feet of wind load. Would this be a sturdy installation? I would use a bra