Hello Bill, I have been using electric fence Aluminum wire for a few years now and it does work great. I love the fact that you can suspend it every 300 feet with very little sag. I was able to get 1
Greg: I put up six C3D's and three EF-340D's about 4 years ago and did NOT have to redrill a single hole! Lucky I guess. Last month I put out a message about tuning the ten meter driven element on my
--E889A900D31FDC1CE4858557 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dave: If you have the new AEA CIA-HF, you don't need to do ANY computation, it is all done for yo
--C8E3BCCF0EAC2ECA447294B2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Dave: I have 9 each of the the Force-12 B-1 baluns available that are in excellent conditio
Sorry fellows, I just can't resist putting in my two cents worth. Here in MT, I just line up my arrays with the section lines that run North and South! I can't imagine that I am more than a few degre
--94FE8C1F9629E90EFF93AA64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Pat: I have been using this exact method for about 25 years now. I have learned a few thing
The biggest thing I have found with my stack of ef-340D's is that it is IMPERATIVE that you really seal the linear loading tuning straps against water penetration. The resulting corrosion (not even v
Sorry in advance to all the purists, but I can't resist alerting anyone that has a six meter rig that we are now experiencing the VERY BEST meteor shower in 38 years of scatter work on six. I worked
Hello Terry, I think that you must have what we call a "Lazy Vee" array out here in cattle country. I put one of these up about 5 years ago. It was my first directive array for 40 meters and it worke
Paul: A friend gave me two used NEMA electrical junction boxes that are about the size you need and are metal so that you don't have to worry about uV. Also, they are really weather proof and they ho
Hello Pat, I was able to pick up about 180 feet of multi stranded silver plated copper cable that was about 1.5 inches in diameter. I have about 30 feet going out from each leg of my tower and laying
Roger, Is channel 39 on cable the same frequency as channel 39 direct broadcast TV??? I thought they were different. 73/Mike Likey your neighbor in Fallbrook is watching San Deigo Channel 39 TV and i
Randy: I have been using .75 inch CATV cable for many years and never paid attention to the lengths. I just thought I would accept the raise in SWR because it should only be about 1.5 : 1 increase. I
Hello Mike, I use a standard steel fence post pounder (basically about a three inch diameter steel pipe about 2 1/2 ft long with one end having a round lid welded over it and handles on the sides). Y
I have never seen one person that so many antenna experts are in agreement about (not with)! 73/Mike, N7ML -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting
--50E7869F76CDDB7B7506517A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Bob: I am not much of an expert, but there is one thing about the EF-340D 40 meter mono ban
Denny, I must disagree with you based strictly on experience. Others, please forgive me repeating myself from an earlier message. I have six stacked triband yagis on a 190 ft. rotating tower. It work
Right on Tom, I once had an H frame for my stack of 4 M2 six meter 40 ft. boom yagis which worked great for EME. For terrestrial work it was really too narrow. To give an idea, if I had a signal 56 a
Hello Guy, I forgot to tell you that I have a single KT-34a that is on an 89 foot self-supporting crank up tower. I have at times put in a coax switch that allows A/B testing. When I am working a Eur
Hello Bill, Well, let's see, I had 4 each m2 2.0 wavelength (40 ft. boom) antennas that were separated about 26 feet horizontally and 30 feet vertically. They worked great like I said for EME or for