I am using the Champion clamp and have had no problems with it. I noticed that the Champion u bolts were a little too short to put spring washers under the u-bolt nuts, so I used blue loctite to make
I find Fastenal pretty good for bulk ss hardware. They have a good web page Mark N1UK Hello, where is the best place to buy bolts, nuts, washers? I need more that 200 size ¼" for radials and mucho mo
I imagine that the weight of the machine is going to tear up your grass too. Something that a climber isn't going to do. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ ____________________
Large yagis can be hoisted up with the gin pole and tower operator can wiggle the yagi around the guy wires, or a tram line can be set up and the yagi can be hoisted up in that manner. That was how t
The Rohn 45 bearing plate that Array Solutions sells can be inserted at the junction between tower sections and moved into position vertically. It can then be tapped/hammered horizontal using a rubbe
I called a guy in the morning, he was out that afternoon and dug three nearly perfect 4 x 6 by 4 foot deep holes for $150 and was gone in about an hour. Compare that to hiring a digger, getting it ho
Yes my operator digs footings for a living with his Bobcat. The holes that he dug were nearly perfect and the pile of excavated soil was placed just where I wanted it. Sure beats dragging a digger ho
Hi Steve, I read that if your guy anchors are out more than the prescribed min of 70% of the height then you can drop the 10% guy loading figure to around 8%, Would you care to comment on that? cheer
Good practice is to sandwich a strip of stainless steel between the galvanized tower leg and the copper. I applied a coating of Penetrox to the stainless steel. I bought my stainless steel on line. M
That is not a lot of gain.. What band where you thinking of using? That is a long horizontal wire to hold out and rotate for just 3dB I modeled a vertical with one resonant radial and yes it slewed t
Have you looked at the Fastenal catalog....on line Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contestin
I guess his wall bracket wasn't very tough. Mine has five 6 foot long 5/8 threaded rods tied into the ceiling joists in the attic.........as well as 2 sets of guys..... Mark N1UK ____________________
I figure that the tower is holding up my wall........Rohn 45 bracketed and guyed Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk ma
What about a tilt over crankup tower with one of those tilting plates on the top. That was something that I was considering until the Rohn 45 came my way. Mark N1UK __________________________________
I wouldn't even want to climb 43 feet of unguyed Rohn 45 (53feet -10 feet). At 33 feet above the guy wires the thing is swinging around too much.for me Mark N1UK _____________________________________
You can try hooking the pipe up to a water hose. The flowing water will soften and move the soil away as you push the pipe down into the ground.. I have read of this being done. Mark N1UK ___________
Hi Steve, I think that he said that he is using silver solder....which is mainly copper, some silver and some self fluxing material. This is what I used but don't apply any heat to the tower leg. Cla
I will be interested to see what others have to say but maybe a 3:1 mortar mix would work. 6:1 is normal for brick work as you don't want the mortar to be harder than the brick but since this is bein
This might be of interest. There are also some other interesting antenna articles to peruse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/bbc_monograph_43.shtml Mark N1UK ____________________________________
Yes I tried that fence post tool but I preferred to use a lump hammer and then switch to a sledge when the going got tougher. I was able to get 10 foot ground rods in below ground level. Some were ea