I have not seen it mentioned yet and have been tempted to try it, but what about the "DX'ers Special" that is in the ARRL Antenna handbook? Mike...NO6X -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towert
Realize I am a bit late on this topic, but just got back from vacation with XYL and kids. I think it is very important to have a wife that is understanding about this hobby. Allthough me and my XYL h
SO THEN! Am I correct in assuming that the concensus then is to let the rotor do all the work and the thrust bearing is just to keep the mast inline with the rotor? Mike...NO6X P.S. Sorry but some of
If I remember right the half wave verticle is supposed to be a fairly decent antenna. The only thing is a matching network is needed as the feedpoint impedance is in the neighborhood of 2000 to 3000
I Guess I was way off!!! I thought BNC was Bayonet Nut Coupling and the TNC was Threaded Nut Coupling The others I have never heard names for their letters. But I can guess N-"Nasty"(to put together)
Well the time is getting closer for the tower install here. My origional plan of Rohn 55 has gone by the wayside, simply because of cost. My plan now is to use the Tri-ex T15 tower. It will hold 18.5
Does that kit spoke of work on a T2X??? Mike...NO6X -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contest
Where can I get more information about it. it is not on the bencher webpage. Info like boom length, turn radius, wind load, longest element you know the typical data. Also price would be a neat addit
There is some stuff on the market called CERABLEND ( I think is how you spell it) It looks like lead and feels like lead however it melts at 150 degrees. Just melt some and pour it into the tubing t
.As you have already noticed, Don't know of any problems, using Cerablend, as they use the stuff for bending tubing that goes into and on airplanes, and some of the angles there are pretty sharp, we
Well I was just presented with an opportunity today, maybe! I was called by one of the local fire departments and they want me to make the 60 feet of tower on their roof disappear! So Me being as gra
Thank You to all that replied to my Rohn 25 question. And after reading all the caveats to taking this stuff down, I opted to check out the idea of using a crane and make life a little more easy. The
OK the decision is getting nearer as what to do for antennas, as my TH7 stacks wont work. I have decided to go with a big tribander of some sort. however Now we come to the 2el. 40 meter beam. ANyone
I want to thank all of those that replied as well as explain myself a little. Many asked "Why won't the stacks work?" I will tell you... Doing a little drwaing and mathematical computations, I will n
This may seem silly and probably is but I have no physics experience. If you put two anchors in and attached both of them to the same guy wire and there was 5000 pounds pull on it wouldn't both of t
Thank you for all of the answers. I think it makes a little more sense to me the Resistor theory was not a good one to analogize (is that a word...is now) with. Now for those of you that said that th
tough I don't know if it is hte same as the TB series. but we just rebuilt a TB5EM found the funny brown insulator stuff. McMaster calls it paper phenolic. and we just busted all of the what looks,
Here is a good one for the masses. I have to the north of me about 1.5 miles a hill of about 1100 feet how is this going to effect radiation angle? We wont mention the 5000 foot mountains to the nort
Ok where is it? Who was it that wrote the note about the amount of reflected signal pulses due to "reflected power"? And the time constant and amplitude of the signal being as such that it DOES NOT
In the process of talking with a friend of mine we came to the conclusion that the only way he was going to work anything on the WARC bands was to have a WARC band antenna...Brilliance, I know! SO I