I recall seeing this iron pipe "choke" written about in an article in HR (?) years ago. As I recall, the author explained it as "adding a shorted turn" around the feedline. I'm not sure how that woul
If your family ride bicycles as mine does, you probably have (or will have) some punctured bicycle tire inner tubes. Simply cut these into 6-8 inch pieces and slide one over the cable before making t
Check out: http://www.lightningrod.com/ They have pretty much everything. 73, Stew K3ND http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!
Although I have built my own antenna relays (I recently did a 4-way that's at the tower base), take a look at: http://www.qth.com/topten/sixway.htm I have two of these in the shack replacing the olde
This is excellent advise from Jim. I've noted that "things" (knee, shoulder, elbow, etc.) certainly don't heal near as fast as they used to. Two years ago, I injured a shoulder replacing a balun and
Well, it depends. I have a stack of sorts. A 40-2CD above a TH6 with 9 feet between the two. This puts the 40M beam a little higher (72ft). In this case, the 40-2CD is the smaller antenna in terms of
Anyone have a source for a hand operated worm gear drive winch? After a bunch og googling, I've seen ones by Fulton and by Shur on the Inet but no dealers or prices. 73, Stew K3ND ___________________
Ran across this on the web. Thought it might be of interest. Looks like just the thing for FD guying FD antennas. http://www.americanea.com/sanchor.html 73, Stew K3ND ________________________________
I'm using 60 ft of R25 tilted over using the W3GM method. Gerry had four 100ft, a 60ft, and two 50ft towers and they all used this method. Gerry did not climb! W3MM, N2TK, and myself use this method
I finally got around to taking some pix of my tilt over tower arrangement. I'll Email the pix to anyone interested. 73, Stew K3ND http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk Yahoo! Mail St
The buried plate, instead of a ground rod(s) appears to be a standard alternative. See the installation of a copper ground plate at: http://www.lightningrod.com/manual2_example.html 73, Stew K3ND ___
I remember reading years ago of an ocean-going tug pulling a disabled vessel in heavy seas. The large steel tow cable broke and one end snapped back and sheard the entire wheelhouse off the tug, kill
I've only done this with a 20M antenna but the results were quite good. I've used 4 sloping radials and also only two. I used a choke balun (coiled coax) at the vertical feedpoint. The remainder of t
I'd like to see the actual physical dimensions of the Moxon conversion. Might consider modifying my 40-2CD at some point. Anyone have these? 73, Stew K3ND http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/towert
Jon, AA1K still uses 4-1000 amps as well as 4-400's and 3-500's. There are a few pix at: http://www.aa1k.us/ Click on "The Shack" link and scroll down a bit. All three of my amps are kind of "old sch
Sounds like a roof tower would be just the thing. Might not be YL/XYL approved however. Could be tougher than dealing with the city! GL... http://www.glenmartin.com/industrial/pg17.htm 73, Stew K3ND
I too had dead links. After some googling, I came up with this. Should work... http://www.7s2e.sk2kw.se/Antennas/80m%20Yagi/80%20m%20Yagi.HTM 73, Stew K3ND ___________________________________________
The pix are impressive. What I'd like to see are the pix of them actually installing this giant. That would be something to see! 73 Stew K3ND http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk __
This came up in discussion with one of the locals. The question came up about connecting the tower coax/control line entrance panel to the AC/telco groung system. I said that these could be connected
I recently acquired a "large" style prop pitch motor. This was from the W3GM M/M station and used to turn the full-size 40M yagi. It's been stored inside since the station was dismantled about 10 yea