Author: Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@ij.net (Jim White, K4OJ)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:01:57 -0500
Heah folks, Its that time of year again...this year will have a slightly abbreviated countdown but once again it is indeed time for you to be thinking about: the Florida QSO Party Last years rebirth
Author: Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@ij.net (Jim White, K4OJ)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:09:41 -0500
....the FQP is now a month away, cu then! 73, Jim, K4OJ k4oj@ij.net "Consider the fact that you can buy an entire washing machine for less than the price of the heaviest antenna rotators." W6NL Proud
OK - which is better, and why? Element to boom plate mounted on top side of boom, element is above boom -or Element to boom plate mounted on bottom side of boom, element is hanging below boom TNX 73,
If anyone on this reflector has some of the HyGain toothed boom to mast clamps (two matching cast metal halves) please do me a favor. I need to know the distance center to center of the four holes in
3" in both directions all e-mail QSL's the above - thanks to everyone who responded so quickly...but nobody wants to part with theirs it seems :-) 73, Jim, K4OJ k4oj@ij.net Proud member of the Florid
Jim, every time I see those pictures of a Telex rotor on a pipe mount (that piece attached to the bottom of the rotor grabbing a vertical pipe for mounting) and then a mast with an antenna on it abov
.......I asked "find" on windows 99 to look for happy99 and HAPPY99, nothing found on my hard drive...am I safe from Clive's Communicable Virus? 73, Jim, K4OJ k4oj@ij.net Proud member of the Florida
if you drill out the old rivets you can probably simply re-use the same holes!!!! it has been my experience that simply getting through t he mushroom head of the rivet results in the rest of the rive
......on the last of the three 204BA's rebuilt over the past two years I used a couple of products I mentioned once here before on Towertalk....a 3M product that chucks in your VSR electric drill is
....first time I saw an upside down vertical for two meters was when I went off to college, a ham had his mag mount upside down in his closet...from then on it seems I have spotted them often! Why no
nope...Scotchkote takes the mechanically applied black tape and proceeds to "liquify" it... Scotchkote behaves more like a solvent when it goes on, taking a taped joint and painting it with the Skotc
Does anyone know offhand the outside diameter of the tube at the top of a Rohn 25 pointy top (the one that accepts a 2-inch Rohn mast with a little slop)? I need to fabricate a step to enable me to s
Yesterday I wore a new full body/fall arrest/harness for the first time. I could NOT get comfortable in it, at all! I suspect there is something I am missing in the adjustment of its operation. I can
......what about the German guy that W3LPL uses......think his name is: Dillisburg Aeroworks (can't find my receipt) or something close to that.......he supplied a bunch of us FL guys, reasonable pri
I wanna hear more about the trailing tiller! This sounds like a great idea, I can envision this as a better approach once you are at the top as you do NOT have the leading tiller "in your face" so to
I am modeling a "stack" for ten meters and am debating about rotating multiple yagis simultaneously from one rotor "sidemounted" which is very "tall". There would be twenty some odd feet in between t
........I am looking at the W7NI article in NCJ....I am reading its "reprint" in the Jan/Feb 92 20th anniversary issue........originally printed in September/October 82 and March/April 83 NCJ's......
Scott......I saw the pictures, sorry but - you now have an opportunity to do it even better. I am happy to see you enjoying this as a challenge...this is a side benefit of having a competitive radio
Steve, Well sure - a u-bolt arrangement is easy as heck to build..........what I am talking about it something which has the ease of usage that a Rohn gin pole's leg mount clamp has - i.e. no BS like
I keep plugging in heights on my antenna modeling software and can't get over how good really low 10 meter yagis look....yeah I know...it is only 10 meters so things are more "manageable"....it is ju