I'm contemplating putting up a rotatable dipole for 40m, I sold my tri-bander with 40m add on kit, and have a 4 el SteppIR on order. I'm planning on putting the SteppIR at 65 feet and the Dipole at 7
I had a friend that put up a tower without a permit in a residential area. His neighbor then complained. He ended up in court with the township and had to hire a lawyer. He was lucky all he had to do
Complexity? I would think putting up 4L monobanders, on 10, 12, 15, 17, and 20m, and 1 6L on 6m would be more complex. You would need 2 or more towers, rotors, multiple feedlines etc. Cost? add all t
I'm looking to buy (or build) a set of tower jacks. There used to be a set available locally for Amateur's to use to do tower work, but not any more. I tried searching the internet , but came up empt
What I'm looking for is a set of two tower jacks (local name?). One piece of a tower jack is a stiff piece of pipe with feet on one end, the other end has what appears to be a upward pointing rake. I
Sure, if it has a hinged concrete base plate, you need a set of tower jacks, see explanation below. I'm very surprised that there aren't any tower jacks laying around somewhere. I've been looking for
Thanks for the reply Steve. I will look through my older photos and try to find some pics from the last time I completely dropped my tower. This was about 5 years ago. I also plan on contacting Morri
I don't understand the confusion over this. How would you take down a one piece freestanding tower? Here's how a set of tower jacks work.... Loosen two apposing tower mounting bolts, with a helper or
Your kidding me, right? You don't have any old towers left over from pre-cable, or sat dish days? Some are still being used for so called, line of sight wireless cable. Also most marina's around here
Located here is a picture of a Morrison Tower Jack...... http://home.comcast.net/~kb2m/jack.jpg The companion prop (not shown) is nothing more then a tower jack without the jack. I setup an album of
Before I retired in January I used to work for the FAA. My work involved traveling at one time or another to all 20 of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers, or ARTCC's as we called them. The log per
Years ago I've worked HF from the Nashua center many times. Unfortunally I don't remember the name or calls of the hams I met there. All the stations at the centers are identical. And yes I remember
The Houston ZHU ARTCC is located right next to AA training headquarters. The antenna system is on FAA property... 73 Jeff kb2m _______________________________________________ ________________________
Oops. I meant to say Dallas Fort Worth ARTCC or ZFW. 73 Jeff kb2m _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@cont
I'm building a new home that will have a full basement. I'm going to move my shack into the basement and I'm looking for any ideas on how to bring in all my antenna cable's. I have about 12 antennas
The only art Bose is involved in is the art of making money. 73 Jeff kb2m when bose introduced their multi speaker facing the wall... not only did 'consumer's' not like it ;;; the guys at the other m
Contact Steppir support at 425-453-1910. They helped me diagnose a problem with my antenna while it was still in the air. It was then a simple matter to replace the failed ECU with the one in hand wi
Another good read on small portable antennas is the HFPackers antenna shootout's... http://hfpack.com/antennas/ 73 Jeff KB2M _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Tow
Another good read on small portable antennas is the HFPackers antenna shootout's... http://hfpack.com/antennas/ 73 Jeff KB2M _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Tow
Well she certainly can't, after all this bad publicity be able to run for TowerTalk Tower Wench of the year award. Thanks guys :-) 73 Jeff kb2m My son who is working to become a ham wants her phone n