"I cringe every time there's some neat construction project idea in QEX or QST and it starts out with "so I used this XYZ that I found at a hamfest 20 years ago". Scrounging is great, but if you want
Hello all. I'm planning a tower install this next spring and am getting deep into the planning and a have a few questions. antenna? I'd like to be able to model the antenna before buying it section?
Hi again. Thanks to all who've replied so far, especially those who advised not to dump the 4el SteppIR as an alternative. I really love the idea of that beam. Anyone here have the factory default di
Check the current Mouser catalog pp. 797-824. Mouser.com should get you there. I believe Switchcraft makes a selection of "weatherproof" connectors. -- R. Kevin Stover, ACØH __________________
Hi Bill. We used one when we built my fathers garage rooftop tower. The garage joins the house on one end and the bracket is bolted to the house there. In his case the bracket attached to the house a
Force12 seems to be a company trying to do too much with too few people. They also seem to have shifted their design emphasis from high performance yagis to limited space/verticals. I had considered
<<"The only practical solution is for the list administrator to unsubscribe every known e-mail forwarding address and restrict future subscriptions from those addresses.">> Ditto that. Years ago the
Having read everything to date concerning this thread I have a few thoughts. 1. There is no way to be sure the original post and attached correspondence from K7LXC is genuine. There's now way to tell
Our FD power system is comprised of a 5KW generator with an 8ft copper clad rod driven in right next to the generator. The frame of the generator and the genset are grounded at that point. For distri
I designed my barn wiring on actual current measurements, not NEC specs. The 50A breaker is not really needed on the lighting circuit. It is what I had for the mains box at the time. The mains breake
A choice between basement and second story, I'd choose basement even if RFI proofing a second story shack wasn't nearly impossible. IMO its just a lot easier to do with easy acces to the power panel
Someone setting up shop to produce something should know something about what they're doing and produce a product that is at least marginally acceptable, and hopefully improve from there. Absolutely!
Agreed. Alas, MS decided a long time ago that their operating systems should be designed with "Mom and Pop" in mind rather than power users and developers. I haven't seen a mobo manufacturer come out
That is my understanding as well, the published SteppIR numbers have been verified on the range rather than relying solely on the analysis/design software numbers. -- R. Kevin Stover ACØH K2/1
You can also look at the price performance question like this: How much will 4 el monobanders for 20-6m cost you? Depending on what you get and from who you can spend $1745 in a heartbeat. Don't forg
I was simply pointing out the fact that a single 4el SteppIR is the functional equivalent of a 20-6m Christmas tree of 4 el monobanders. I slipped over to the M^2 site and priced 4el yagis for 20-6m.
This has been an interesting discussion. One question comes to mind though. If you've got the room to properly guy a self supporting tower, meaning 80% of total height, why wouldn't you go ahead and
I'd have to agree. If you're going to use a vertical no need to spend a ridiculous amount of money on the others. I just got done setting my father-in-law up with a GAP dummy load.....errr.....I mean
Here's KY6LA's website for his Monster install. He bought and installed Monster #1. http://www.ky6la.com/monstir_project.htm 73, AC0H _______________________________________________ See: http://www.m
KY6LA did exactly that, but his tower is an US Tower MA-850 tubular crank-up with the tilt over feature and rotor base. I believe he installed the driven and 36' elements first, raised the tower spun