I joined at age 11. At age 16 I became a girl scout. If you really must know, I was a girl scout at age 5. My mother was the leader of a girl scout troop and went to every meeting. I would give the s
Having followed the Inverted L discussion and learning lots, I decided to document my 160 elevated ground plane antenna. It has been up for thirty years. I replaced the feedline last year. It is 200
Bob, The reference to Dick Weber's article in the last email is the first time I have heard of shortened radials supposedly being better than full quarter wave. Seems worth exploring. My vertical is
I spent the afternoon replacing crimp terminals and cleaning the connection point on the ground plate. I finished three radials completely. There are three more that must be replaced. One of the rema
Good morning, I finally had a chance to finish cleaning and replacing the terminals on the radials and to measure the results. The results show no significant change in radial current or current in t
FWIW, I put a length of tubing in that is the average diameter between the two points of the swage part. I use a lot of old Telrex elements which are swaged at the ends. I have had good luck modeling
I have (jokingly) offered to buy my wife a one way ticket to any place of her choosing in the whole world several times during our 57 years of marriage. Good thing she has a sense of humor. 73, Dave,
FWIW .... I ran a stack of the older Cushcraft 2 element 40M yagis at 70 and 140 feet for more than 25 years. They were great. I have replaced them with a pair of 2 element Moxons at 75 and 145 feet.
Good morning, I have had a rotating Rohn 55 up as high as 200 feet for 30 years. Due to health issues a few years ago it is now 155 feet high. I have had various large, single band yagi antennas and
Greetings fellow tower dwellers, I need to replace pulleys used to haul up 80 meter dipole ends. I need to find sources for good quality pulleys, perhaps stainless steel types used on sailboats? I al
It's me again. Thanks for the pulley suggestions. I found everything I need. For the past 20 minute I have tried(and failed) to find 1/4 inch black dacron rope in lengths of 1000 feet or more per spo
Good morning, Thanks for all of your suggestions. I have ordered Harkin pulleys and tower pulleys from Champion Radio and 3/16 Dacron rope from Davis RF. I am replacing all the destroyed antennas on
Good morning, Each dipole of my 80 meter four square dipole array is fed with 72 ohm coax. Yes, they are full length dipoles suspended vertially around a 150 foot tower. One end of each dipole is at
Thanks to your excellent advice, all the rope and pulleys for rebuilding the 80M foursquare are on order and being shipped. Jim, K9YC mentioned his experience with Flexweave and got me to thinking. M
Good morning, I recently changed my elevated 160 meter quarter wave vertical with 8 full sized radials to having only 1/8th wave length radials and only four of them. It is working great. So I though
Greetings, Soon I will be installing a Stackmaster remote switch on my tower. I would like to connectorize it in case I ever have to remove it for repair. I am looking for a five pin or six pin weath
Thanks for all of the advice. I have decided to go to the Auto parts store and look for some of those trailer hitch connectors. They are flat, in line and have 2 to 6 or eight pins. 73, Dave, K4TO __
I use the same method as K9MA. Mine have also been up for 31 years now with no problems. Dave, K4TO _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tow
I generally use 4 inches overlap for 2 inch diameter and 2 inches for an inch and smaller. If your sections are more than six feet in length, I would consider adding an inch of overlap. This is not b
Hello Jorge, N4KG is now an SK. I had a pair of those antennas for 25 years or so. I had to slip an extra tube or two inside the tubing in the center of each element. They did much better, mechanical