Hi Sam... how ya been? I used to sell the expanding foam - caution - it expands a lot more than you think. A common problem in the door and window business is too much of the foam being used causing
I have a three stack of 204BA's... I use coiled coax as per WA2SRQ's calculations years ago... The coaxes are equal in length and are continuous from the feed point to the base of the tower... they h
the first time I visited W3AU after I moved to Tampa we got to his house and his wife said, Ed is out in back... my Dad and I went looking for him... there he was up in the air on some AB105 swapping
I have several similar plumbers delight RF connectors... We used to have a metal turning lathe which was very handy for taking a compression coupling and cutting it in half, you only need one side of
More on W6AM and his "mobile" When my father, W1CW, was running the DXCC desk at the ARRL he went out to CA for one of the California DX conventions - this may have been Fresno era - think it was pri
Sounds like a great ground plane... you may have a luxury many try to achieve with lots of radials! Does the roof have good quality "seams" - I have heard reports of intermittent contact between piec
I highly recommend the DX Engineering stuff... it is the olde Al Harbach stuff which I have used for years... the cast saddles are one of a kind and make for a significant amount of surface contact o
some excellent suggestions from the DC ham.... FWIW - I use blocking of the boom to prevent crushing made form "plastic lumber" - it is currently very in vogue to use this stuff for decks, etc... it
I prefer the "flat" versus round ones.... You can wrap the flat one several times around a round member and it holds well... example if you are on the top plate of the tower and the belt is around th
As regards 10 Be sure to have one of your beam REALLY high up (and remember to point it at Florida on the appropriate weekends!) I seem to remember The Fridge (W3LPL) has a 10 meter beam up at the ca
assuming the splice is 2 1/16" (in joke - ignore) get a splice for 4" pvc, the usual kind when you wanna put two lengths together - a "double female".... saw it in half lengthwise so you have two hal
Looking for parasitic elements from a 203/4/5 BA antenna... trying to avoid buying them new. OR if you one of the beams you are hoping to sell in near complete condition mebbe I am interested... Let
Ya know... I think someone has already solved this problem... A few years back someone did this with mobile antennas - "screwdrivers" - because they used the guts of an electronic screwdriver... do n
Someone get the duct tape my head is about to explode! This sounds like a good way to have a balanced feed system with no baluns to go zap...but...it looks like the verdict is still out. I have one s
You are to be commended for taking the time to educate an official... the value of this is high - too bad it might mean you may have more ham neighbors, hi! Hams get a lot of bad press and when we ca
I am wondering what the impedance would be if two RG8X coax cables are right alongside each other... this would be easy to fabricate... either some tape or heat shrink every few feet would make a cle
...it is overkill but trenchers, the digger looks like a giant chain saw blade, are now common rental items here in FL, these puppies are like totally kewl. You will want to be sure nothin is in the