www.championradio.com carries climbing belts. I have two of his harnesses. This is not an area to be bargain hunting. I am need of a safety belt for tower climbing. I am a casual climber but still ne
Blow the balun on the F12 and you are out of action too. The separate feedlines is an advantage if you need that kind of flexibility. I have to wonder what all those extra elements do to the pattern.
Switch to 180 degree mode and you will quickly figure out if you have a reflector or not. Next someone is going to tell us that traps are wonderful things too. I guess they are if you like loss. The
Ford............ Better being very subjective to the contester or dxer in general. Most of the SteppIR owners I know don't believe they are perfect. As an outside observer on this one: There haven't
Optimum for what? Gain, F/B, pattern? Who defines what is optimal? What he said is that you can overcome many of the issues with fixed element spacing if you have the ability to vary the element leng
We are not talking about monobanders built on a specific sized boom. We are talking about multiband antennas. Which the C31 and SteppIR are. The reason the 10m F/B is much lower is because the driven
You do not have to use forms. That is what I have done on two towers. You will probably end up with a bigger hole than is required so expect to use more concrete. Back hoes are not that precise. Tryl
The OB-163 has 8 elements on 10m. Does not have any elements for 17 or 12. It is very large. I believe the SteppIRs do so well because there is not all that other aluminum sitting out on the antenna.
A decent stack of just about anything will be better than the single antenna alone. You have another antenna to share in SO2R for one. Stacking height was not mentioned. Someday 10 and 15 will be bac
Easier said than done. The controller uses a 25 pin connector. He would have to cut the cable and then solder up a connector. I have a 300 ft run of cable in Colorado and have had no issues at all. I
They are not the same as any old antenna on the same footprint. But that is really not helpful to the person that is having a problem. See ya in da pileups.. 73 Gil W1RG (with a 3 el Steppir...) ____
You on the east coast to Europe and the SteppIR on the West Coast? :-) step ir is a religion you say,Well my 34 year old mosley just took a 3 el step ir to religious instructions on 20 meters. tony K
I have searched Google for quite a while now and have come up empty. Has anyone used/modeled/etc an 80m 4 sq over a full sized 4 sq. array? I have not really found any shortened 80 verticals. I am no
Here is the webpage for the 65 ft verticals from DXE. I have had a number of people ask where I found it. It is found under vertical antenna parts Aluminum tubing kits. http://www.dxengineering.com/P
I put a similar device on my meter here in Montana. I was losing electronics fairly regularly, mostly cheap cordless phones. No problems since and there is a guarantee with coverage limits. I think I
Meter readers? What are those. My rurual MT home has a sending device that tells the Power Company how much juice I am using. In Colorado they just installed some new gadget that allows them to drive
and if you hit something that was not marked they won't hold you responsible. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list To
Swimming pool pipes and sprinkler lines are not utilities. We are talking about utility locates. It appears that Florida has this service too. In Florida, calling 811 is free and it connects you to S