Hi Pete Reading your Yaesu rotator woes ... I did the same as you to my towers. 1000' rolls of #12 UF was only around $180 in 1990 ! But do you think the UF wire is BAD ? I have taken a few direct li
I am under the impression ,that Phillistran installation guid recommends appropriate steel/EHS Guy wire at a safe tamper proof and ground fire height. I have installed a number of both Phillistran an
IMO. Tom I see no problem . The only caveat is to use the, total hight and using the highest pic point Wayne W3EA Ps. Leon would have "just went for it" Sent from my iPad ____________________________
WOW I am a belt and suspenders type Ken, and that is a catastrophic incident . No pre implantation of standard safety factors could have saved that installation. GL on you re build Wayne W3EA Sent fr
Hi Steve I have used Panduit & Tomas Bates with success . I am also a belt and suspenders type.... with my installations. so a three wrap of Scotch 33 goes over top for piece of mind :) . We don't ha
I also have experience with 20-G and 25-G towers... @ my station my 2mter/450 MHZ and one 6 meter beam 5 element 14' boom are on at 36ft. an consist of 3 sections of 20-G and a top of 25-G AG3 ? it's
Two levels of guy is what my concern would be. I am in as now and be home in PA next week. I have a library or Rohn catalogs and in the older ones I have the full spec on r 25 -G. But if my gray matt
My Bad :( I meant to say R-20-G ( Still on ESDT time and it was AZ time = 1:00PM to me ) 25-G is a horse of a different color ... _______________________________________________ _____________________
Steve The Dim for the two are the same except for the number of Z bars bays. and the fact of the OD of the Z rung material and the wall thickness of the vertical tubes , And yes this is Ham radio....
Age 66 years Young Still Climb..... but my ventures are now Well planed and duplicates of each nut, bolts, nuts, washers and wrenches . My Wife/Bride has one rule..... a two deep... and not alone....
Jim Said: The best part of that was a sweet young thing who WOW Jim. MY got something once doing a Tower Install JOB After a looog day of stacking 140' of R- 55 got off the tower and dropped my gear
The story is a sad note for sure, and hopefully a learning lesson for those who do climb. I have been using a full body harness for a loooooog time . dual Lanyard's fall arrest on the back D Ring and
Not a can you top this Jim But a Local and Fellow FRC'er was working alone on his 120' Rohn 55 tower. He's in his Late 60's . after working on a lower side mount antenna he climbed to the 90' side mo
This BIG Tower climb Thread , seems ti have taken on a life of it's OWN Like the great plastic horned Owl and finding true North I can't speak for everybody ... but @ 67 I hopefully have learned some
Yes it's not a tower but a noise source for my 4 sq receiving antennas I am knee deep in a new operating position table... and my Radio CPU is tore apart. So can some one please point me to source of
Hi Fellow TT'ers. Rebuilding operating position and making all modular control lines. 7 rotors, three stack match, two beverage switched not to mention band decoders BP filters SO My old Station Bibl
OK another dumb question.. I have a 100 ft spool of Alpha RG400 and about 60 ft. of Belden RG 142. I have used pieced B-4 for some Radio /AMP Amp Wattmeter and radio BPF box. With 9 RG 214 jumpers co
I have boxes at the base of my towers. I use only 6 control justion 123 and 567 on CDR, TELEX rotors and double the extra #4 and #7 to #1 and #2 to over come some IR loss and the Motor Starting CAP a
I 2nd the painting mitt option... I buy them on fleaBay A gallon can for me was clumsy. I make my own out of the 3lb plastic wide mouth coffee jugs. I made a wide 1" wide X 1/8" thick J hook. I duck
That true...... I have one tower Harness and lanyards just dedicated to Tower Paining .... I usually wear a LIGHT long sleeve shirt with the cuffs taped below my wrist and silver bullet you have to w