I guess I would look at this like a coax or cable bundle. Some individually label them, others stripe them, and I'm sure there are other simple methods. Sounds like a nice economic advantage if you d
IMO, and I know its not what you are asking, but I'd crank it back vertical and with the tower extened that small amount for rotor access, use a mast winch to lift it off the rotor and a scissors jac
A number of years ago in a Corporate sponsored business class called "The World is Flat", we were told pretty much the same thing. The only difference is that it was not 1-2 generations out, but here
Hi John, Back in the 70's, on a city lot in W9 land, I used a 40M vertical and added a make shift ~12' diameter top hat. Maybe more like an umbrella hat but it did it's thing. All you needed at the b
I do hope this is some kind of a mistake. HRO had one last year about this time with tower prices, but not this agregious. I bought my HDX-589MDPL from HRO for 1/3 the current HRO Web site list last
The bulk of my 160M DXCC QSO's used an OCFD (270' E2E fed about 90' from one end). With winds and heavy icing, it never fell down. It worked quite well on 80M too. YMMV especially if the materials la
The Chicago land area also had Heathkit, Spectronics, and a hand full of smaller entrepreneur shops in the suburbs too. I enjoyed driving to AES in Milwaukee, but it was still 100 miles and they were
I moved one of these last fall. It nests around 13' and we used a 10' trailer with a flag. Four of us comfortably muscled it around from where it was to the drive. YMMV Rent a car moving trailer or 2
Greetings All, Yesterday, while digging through a SK's barn I found some antenna parts that aside from the dust appear to be NOS. The boom to mast plate is stamped with Kirk Electronics, but the die
Greetings, I took delivery of a HDX589 last year. Included with the tower was the Owners manual. That manual covers the installation process and is red stamped a "controlled document" on every page.
Bill etal, I had some LMR-600-UF going to several UHF antennas on a rotating tower. It showed signs of sun damage and the outer jacket crinkle cracked on me too. The salesman warned me upfront it mig
Back in the day as a novice I used Door Bell Wire for 80M wire antenna. They come in convenient 65' rolls and around 20 guage. 500W would be no problem. --Original Message-- From: TowerTalk [mailto:t
I have run 1KW into RG58 with near 1:1 SWR on 40M/80m. The cable did warm up afew degree's but it never failed. However, on 15M to the same 40m antenna the foam dielectric flowed essentially melting
Hi Jim, As you probably know a Class 3 insulator material is best. Some enamels work well at 105C temps, FormVAR variants etc... If you think it will run hotter there are materials that go a lot high
About 20 years ago I used a ruby red type grease to pull LMR600 and rotor cables through a 1.5" plastic conduit ( black plastic water irregation type pipe). It went in slick, but it came out as dried
Does anyone know where to buy the 4" x 4" x 2" weatherproof boxes with tabs used by DXE or Comtek in their products?? Any leads would be appreciated. Thanks Mike K9MK ________________________________
Does anyone know a tower guy that can work in the Gonzales Texas area. I need a tower retensioned, possibly reguyed. Please contact me off list at k9mk at flash dot net. Thanks in advance. 73's MIke
Greetings, Does anyone have the value-rating for the starter cap that is used in the HyGain HDR-300 rotor. Also is there a source for the brake solonoid? In the manual both are referred to as assemby
Greetings, Aside from the medium power diplexer offered by the Diamond MX610 does anyone make a HF/6M+ diplexer that can handle legal limit power? I thought about tee-ing up a TV3300 with a legal lim
Greetings Towertalk Sages... I just dropped a half dozen coax runs from the shack, through the attic into a chase in a covered walkway, out to the outside back wall of the detached garage where the a