While doing tower work and after the mast was removed, I gave the Thrust Bearing a spin with my hand. The bearing will spin ok but not smooth as if the bearing's have a flat spot's or egg shape. Is t
Hello Towertalkers My plan is to construct a 160m vertical using 4 inch irrigation tubing 90 ft tall, with 4 top loading wires spaced 90 degree and sloping down at 45 degrees . My target freq is 1.83
I would like to thank everyone for their help and wisdom . I do have the ON4UN low-band book edition 4 and from the emails I've received on and off the reflector I'm starting to put it all together i
Is their anyone building and selling traps these days? I would like to combined my 30 / 40m vertical with a 30m trap. Also I'm building a 160m vertical and would be nice to have a 80m trap ! DX engin
I'm looking for 1 or 2 female F connectors for 3/4 inch commscope CATV cable. may be in your junk box, of a source that will sell 1 or 2 Thanks Ed _______________________________________________ ____
Hello gentlemen , has anyone experienced this ? The problem I'm having with my M2 rotor is it comes to an abrupt stop were ever it likes ! If I'm setting at 180 degrees and hold the CCW button to set
Skip, yes it could be the reed switch. I be leave I can test that here in the shack, I could use my 24 volt supply and connect direct to terminal 1 and 2 . I would have to keep a close eye on the rot
Thanks Everyone for all the good info on and off the reflector, I'm now prepared first pretty day to check things out . Ed N5DG _______________________________________________ _______________________
I'm using a tail twister rotor 350 ft form the control box turning a 2 el quad, This problem reoccurs each winner when the wind blows ..Well in fact any time the wind blows .. With the wind 20 mph or
OK thanks everyone , My rotor is getting old so I'll replace the Start/Run capacitor with a new one and place it in the junction box at the base of the tower .. Something tells me this will do the tr
I have no experience using a utility but have gave it some thought while driving the country road's in east Texas. There it was in the front yard, looked like about 50 ft of pole out of the ground..
Antenna Guru help needed I'm at a point were working new DX on the high bands is getting tougher . For 15 years I used a 2 element 5 band quad , the quad did ok but it seamed I needed repair about ev
Thank, everyone offered great information on just about every antenna available plus I've learned about K7LXC antenna compassion book available from championradio.com.. Lots and lots of direct email
Ketchup, I seen this on Ricks Restoration. Ed N5DG On 8/2/2014 8:31 AM, Gedas wrote: As much as I hate to admit it, at times I have been guilty of leaving rotor cables or even coax outside unprotecte