Scott, Find a good car-hauler [one car type] that some neighbor might loan you. They are quite adequate. Don N8DE _______________________________________________ _____________________________________
No slack? If there is no catenary in the guy lines, please give us your method of defying the Law of Gravity! Don N8DE _______________________________________________ ________________________________
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but one alternative choice is to mount a rotator on a hinged flange near the base with a mast going up to a V-bracket near the top of the pole. A line could be pu
When a tree grows, it DOES NOT get longer along its trunk. It grows from the TOP, adding new height. Two branches on the same side of the tree one foot apart now will be one foot apart next year, etc
Chuck, Sounds to me like a HyGain TH-4 antenna, which is a 3-element tribander with an extra 10m element. It COULD be a DB-1015 which is a duobander. Are you sure the extra ten meter element isn't an
I agree with Bob .. One thing to remember ... fresh [lake] water is not very conductive .. pour a couple 100 # bags of rock salt in the lake .. and then see what the water gods say! Don N8DE Quoting
Quoting Ken Kinyon <w7ts@comcast.net>: AND .. make certain he can determine True North with or without an owl. Don N8DE _______________________________________________ _______________________________
Most probably written by the county attorney. Bet he dreamed that up by doing some research in the bottom of a Stroh's can. Don N8DE Quoting Doug Rehman <doug@k4ddr.com>: ____________________________
Most of those old Telrex antennas used a T-Match. Look in ARRL Handbooks and Antenna Handbooks. Don N8DE Quoting Paul Cassel <paul@ve3sy.com>: _______________________________________________ ________
All the BX type sections were tapered and it was possible to extend to 64' with two more sections, but climbing them was a PITA. Don N8DE Quoting jacobsen_5@msn.com: _________________________________
As a professional educator and coach, I looked into that when I was employed at a school that had four beautifully placed pair of light towers on a football field that ran from NE to SW .. ideal for
My first 15m monobander was a 5-el from Gotham. Very similar experience as Cort ... but mine came down with the wooden tower in a big windstorm. Big aluminum pretzel .. first of many over the years.
From my index file: K1JYN Central Falls, RI .. worked 1959,1960,1967,1972 on 80m 40m and 20m CW Also worked K1JYN/1 on 40m and 80m CW in 1966 W1CMH Cranston, RI .. worked on 20m CW in 1957 SS Memorie
Being a total neophyte with NEC/EZNEC, I'm looking for any help with my antenna projects. Does anyone have NEC files for: 3 el 30m yagi (close-spaced .1/.1 ) 4 el 17m yagi 5 el 12m yagi Have all the
Look in the Yagi chapter of the ARRL Antenna Handbook for instructions. The compensator is made of PVC and the dimension given is for 1/2 the compensation length. Don N8DE Quoting DENNIS BRICKEY <n4d
There is a complete listing of element lengths/spacings in the ARRL Antenna Handbook for the Optimized Version of the 205BA. Don N8DE Quoting Joe Barnes <n4jbk@bellsouth.net>: _______________________
Wasps love to set up shop inside the mast, entering from the bottom, inside the clamp above the rotor. Glad they didn't get you. I am hypersensitive to wasp venom and swell up like a barrage balloon
20' sections rings no bells ... 10' sections of aluminum tower is usually Universal ... and 8' sections are usually Hieghts. If those 20' are for sale .. I'd love to be able to bid on them. Don N8DE
4 elements on 40m on a 34' boom? That boom length is about right for TWO elements, hardly for more than two. Don N8DE Quoting Mike <nf4l@nf4l.com>: _______________________________________________ ___
The skil-saw is a waste of time/money/energy. Simply using a weighted, flat bed made of wood and having a 'keel blade' made of steel or thick aluminum is sufficient to make the cut in the ground. A s