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41. [TowerTalk] idea(l?) hamshack (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Mon Mar 31 12:54:02 2003
I'm not so sure it is an off topic question. It seems to me that he is constructing a site with a shack (read vault) near his antenna. For that reason, grounding of the building and tower combination
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-03/msg00435.html (7,524 bytes)

42. [TowerTalk] tower climber group on yahoo groups (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Fri Feb 7 14:03:20 2003
Before everyone writes off the yahoo tower climber group Steve wrote about I thought I'd mention that there are a bunch of great tower photos there worth looking at, however it's true that the email
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00131.html (6,828 bytes)

43. [TowerTalk] Re: Digging the hole (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Thu Feb 20 12:59:28 2003
I've never put up a tower of my own but if I were going to, I'd hire someone with a backhoe. At my place, there are so many rocks, bricks and chunks of concrete below grade it took me 5 hours just to
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00375.html (6,880 bytes)

44. [TowerTalk] 750' tower guy swap (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Thu Feb 27 14:25:03 2003
What makes this even more interesting is that it concerns an operation on a mw broadcast tower, meaning that we have a tower on an insulator, probably coming down to a relatively small point. Then ag
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00547.html (6,849 bytes)

45. [TowerTalk] TV and FM TX manuverings in NYC after 9/11 (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Sat Jan 25 14:20:42 2003
Found this kind of interesting account of what went on amongst NYC tv and fm broadcasters in the days following 9/11 if you like this kind of detail. Covers use of Armstrong's Alpine tower, troubles
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00409.html (7,081 bytes)

46. [TowerTalk] Re: Ground rod material (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Tue Jan 28 13:28:35 2003
Hi Julio: I'd go with the copper clad rods. For one thing, you will probably be using copper of some sort in your runs to the rods and/or buried in the ground so if the rod is copper you won't have t
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00495.html (7,964 bytes)

47. [TowerTalk] BCI to analyzers tuning transmatches (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Wed Jan 29 18:17:35 2003
Re the problem with medium wave bc stations getting into swr analyzers being used to tune transmatches, I understand MFJ makes a filter just for this purpose. I've never used it (the 1 kw 1480 khz tx
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00553.html (7,432 bytes)

48. [TowerTalk] Update on NYC tv tower report (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Wed Jan 29 18:35:07 2003
A few days ago I posted a message about the NYC tv and fm broadcast situation following 9/11. Here's an update from Amateur Radio Newsline: THE WAR ON TERRORISM: NYC REBUILDS WITH A NEW TV TOWER IN N
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00554.html (9,760 bytes)

49. [TowerTalk] groundrods useable lifespan (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Fri Jan 31 19:11:39 2003
Thanks for the information on soil ph with regard to ground rod material. It prompts the question: Generally speaking, (very generally) how long can a ground rod be expected to stay in service? I rea
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00605.html (6,732 bytes)

50. [Towertalk] Tie Down Engineering (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:34:52 +0000
Found this source for guy anchors--Tie Down Engineering in Atlanta. They sell boxes of anchors of varying sizes, some with double helixes. Galvanizing available. Don't know about prices. You have to
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-12/msg00050.html (7,073 bytes)

51. [Towertalk] Stocking stuffers (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:08:27 +0000
0.5" inner diameter split ferrite chokes in plastic snap holders (the ones from RF parts are in my opinion the best @ $2.50 ea.) make great stocking stuffers. You can never have enough of these littl
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-12/msg00607.html (7,282 bytes)

52. [Towertalk] BC tower sites in N. Am. (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:18:10 +0000
Interesting web page listing links to a series of "travelogues" complete with nice photos of AM broadcast tx sites across North America: http://www.fybush.com/siteindex.html Visit among others, WLW's
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00509.html (7,286 bytes)

53. [Towertalk] Re: Amazing (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:11:56 +0000
We have to get the Maxx-Comm guy together with the people who sell the box that TURNS YOUR HOUSE WIRING INTO A GIANT TV ANTENNA!!!! No telling what miracles they could come up with if they pooled the
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-11/msg00590.html (6,565 bytes)

54. [Towertalk] Dacron stretching (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:59:48 +0000
Hi everyone: I have a vertical guyed with dacron. At both ends of each guy I've got 3 or 4 small clips and thimbles (in other words, I didn't just tie knots and leave it at that). The anchors are 4'
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00681.html (8,256 bytes)

55. [Towertalk] Quick equipment ground disconnects? (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:07:44 +0000
What kind of hardware are you all using to accomplish the quick disconnects? I have all my gear bonded to 1" tinned straps, 1/2"od copper cables and pipes all fastened with brass clamps and lug bolts
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00699.html (7,887 bytes)

56. [Towertalk] Service grounds (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:27:31 +0000
I'd like to suggest as a precaution, that if you are in a new house (new to you that is) and you have not put in a perimeter ground, do not assume that all your service entrances have been grounded
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00740.html (7,336 bytes)

57. [Towertalk] Coax recommendations (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:12:56 +0000
I went looking for a new feedline last year and wound up choosing the cable experts cxp1318fx type of RG8 as a good balance, for legal limit amateur use on HF at 100 feet or less, between the profess
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00327.html (7,493 bytes)

58. [Towertalk] Sidemount concerns (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:40:03 +0000
It was in CQ; not QST. July issue as I recall. Rob Atkinson K5UJ _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.co
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00573.html (7,071 bytes)

59. [Towertalk] Towers in Hurricanes (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:58:25 +0000
Hi everyone: This is a question for the tower professionals (but of course anyone can chime in). The local newspaper's wx section yesterday had a writeup about Hurricane Andrew since this was the 10t
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00737.html (8,408 bytes)

60. [Towertalk] Re: Towers in hurricanes (score: 1)
Author: k5uj@hotmail.com (Rob Atkinson, K5UJ)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:29:07 +0000
Thanks everyone for your comments, memories, descriptions, stories etc. on this topic. It was very educational. 73, Rob Atkinson K5UJ _________________________________________________________________
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00774.html (6,698 bytes)


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