Yes for all the work involved why scrimp on the base. It is false economy. You should go below the frost line too Make sure that the wall bracket is well secured. Just lagging into the outside wall d
Hi Ed, The Rohn 25 hole isn't very big. I dug mine by hand quite quickly. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing l
OK thanks Roger. I see now that they are really reducers and not bushes hence the material that they are made of. I have put a mast up through the Rohn 25 top piece in the past and it worked perfectl
Yes agreed - what Quality Control. I just bought an MFJ-259B Antenna Analyzer. It didn't workout of the box. If I forced the PL259 over it worked intermittently. With nothing to lose I opened it up a
I put in 10 foot copper clad 5/8 ground rods around my tower. Most of them went in pretty easily.. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ __________________________________________
Yes I was lucky pounding in my 10 foot ground rods with a sledge hammer until I got to the last two. It took me 2 hours to pound in those last two ground rods. Maybe it was later in the season and th
There was a death a while back when a climber fell and it looked like one of those climbing pegs had rusted through and had snapped off when weight was put on it Mark N1UK ___________________________
I watched and it made me glad that it wasn't me up there..hi hi Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerT
With a long trailer like that you have to watch the access to the gas stations. Some forecourts are just too cramped to get a long load around. I picked up some Rohn 45 with a 16 foot trailer. Coupli
Interesting.. I should try and hook up my mfj in place of my rig and see what the match on my two tuner tuned wire antennas looks like. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _____
The surge suppressor in the link looks a bit cheap and small for a whole house. I would think something like that should be put inside a grounded metal box to contain the fire and sparks Mark N1UK __
What do they require now? Several rods. I just beefed up my service ground (an old steel pipe banged in the ground 30 years ago) with another 10 foot copper clad rod right by it and then tied the sy
So when you buy a generic surge protected power strip, do they have the 3 way MOV protection installed in them? Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _____________________________
Hi Jack, How can you tell if the MOV's have failed? I expect that most of mine are probably like that. You should be able to order some from say Mouser and replace them Mark N1UK ____________________
I know that my pump wiring isn't bonded to the well casing. Should it be? Also when I was running my tower grounding system I decided not to attach the the well casing to the system. I am a little co
Yes I use the Amphenols from RF Connection. The DX Engineering connectors are good too but use the Amphenols if you are using coax with an oversize centre conductor such as Extra-Flex 9096A. I use th
You really need two soldering irons for the job. A smaller iron to solder the inner pin and then a big 100 watt iron to solder the outer jacket. Mark N1UK ____________________________________________
I use a Panavise to hold the coax while I am soldering the connector. I like to point the connector downwards when soldering the centre pin and point the connector upwards when soldering the body, so
Many years ago we had a bad ice storm here in the Carolinas and the local tv towers were standing until the sun came out and melted the ice on one side of the tower. Several of the tower which were a
The information that I got was that the f/b wasn't the best on the WARC bands and that you were better of with the earlier TH-7DX ( I think that is the right number) and the A3WS WARC tribander. Just