You might also check into local Marine shops, they carry stainless steel pulleys, particularly shops that carry Sailing equipment. 73, Tim K8WBL ______________________________________________________
I found similar issues on my first center fed zep, wire going through my tall maple tree, worked great until it rained, or snowed and then finally the wires seem to grow into the tree limbs itself...
Hey all, guess I will throw in my experience with the HyTower for whatever its worth. I got my Hytower off an old elmer but live in a city lot in Cincinnati, Oh. Verticals never seemed to do well for
Hey John, I have a HB 2 element yagi/moxon (very similar to a Force 12 C3S) at 30 feet up that covers 20 - 10 meters and does a real nice job, much quieter than my center fed 148 foot zepp at 60 feet
Correction...definitely NOT up high...in live in a hole!! hi hi 73, Tim K8WBL _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://c
The only so-so beam I have seen is the Force 12 C3SS that also radiates on 17/12 meters with a little gain...something like 1.5 dB... but on 17m its reverse Tim ______________________________________
I agree with Dave, but a brief would be to put it about a 1/4 wave up at the operating freq. however, lower versions are cloud burners and good for 100 - 500 miles...higher is generally accepted as b
Better F/B with a Reflector/Driven Element set up...the extra gain you will probably never hear it...but the F/B is important to me...that's why I converted my 2 element 20 meter yagi to a Moxon...go
L.B. Cebik has a good explanation of both, and I think Force 12 and Opti-beam now use the same figures in their ads to try to get some kind of Standard of measurement. The old companies, Hygain, Mosl
Look Home brew to me... the coil definitely home brew, the insulator looks like something off of a Hygain Hytower base insulator ... Gotham antennas of the 70's had something similar, but not the bas
My CL-33 has the same feed, using two pieces of RG-8X or something about that size down the inside of the Driven elements... was wondering my self about the latest QST article, page 40, where they ad
Good point, .. I always wondered why some hams buy the best, most expensive radio they can afford, then put up the cheapest antenna or the most simplistic, dipole,etc. instead of looking and research
I experience a little RF getting into the wife's TV with a similar antenna.. 149 foot center fed Zepp at 65 feet height with 94 feet of 450 ohm ladder line, to a 1:1 coax balun, then any length into
My experience in the Midwest is dipoles mounted horizontally work well.. I don't think the ground conductance works well in Ohio or surrounding.. out West (Idaho) my friend W8TM, says everyone has ve