Hello Towertalkians, I am mentoring a new ham who has limited options for putting up an HF antenna. He has 30 ft. of Rohn 25 tower placed directly next to his house (an old TV tower), but it is locat
I heard from a friend back in Illinois that K9LTN passed away this past week. He was the owner of the framous 4 over 4 over 4 -by- 4 over 4 over 4 array of SteppIR Yagi's, featured in a presentation
Happy New Year! I have a question for the Group about the various brands of coaxial lightning protection. Without going into a lot of detail, I have a SPG copper buss bar in the basement that serves
On March 31, ICE released the following statement concerning the company: "Industrial Communication Engineers (ICE), Ltd, its employees and the Indianapolis Amateur Radio community mourn the passing
No, but it increases the pucker factor to remove the antennas about 10 fold, since you cannot lower the mast into the tower. 73 de Bill _______________________________________________ ______________
Good Morning, I need to rewind one of the linear loading coils on a Cushcraft 402-CD that was fried by lightning. According to a web article I read, the coil consists of 68 turns of #12 AWG magnet wi
Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions. I was able to wind the coil by hand by placing the element tip in the bench vise. I just kept working the wire on the 3/4" fiberglass tube until it looked
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It appears that my Hy-Gain T2X Tailtwister is not going to be large enough for long term survival of my 4 element 20-6M Stepp-IR stacked with a 2 element 40m Cushcraft 402-CD 12 ft above it. After on
Thanks to everyone who reponded. Based upon the comments received, I am proceeding with the PST61D and a Green Heron controller. 73 de Bill _______________________________________________ ___________
All, I am not a Telecommunications Lawyer and I did not sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I offer up these thoughts for consideration. Many of the privileges we enjoy as Amateur Radio Op