If anybody has recently upgraded their yagi setup and has a leftover C3XL, or if you'd like to upgrade and want to sell your existing C3XL to pay for part of the upgrade cost (last I heard F12 doesn'
Actually, I believe the book calls for E&E vs E&J if you are using equalizer plates. At least that's what I did with my 80' 45G I just finished putting up. If a guy did use the E&J, the J would have
After comparing the specs on the two, kinda wonder why F12 even bothered to build the C4. There's hardly a hair difference in them, and the S is shorter and lighter and cheaper. Hmmm... 73, Jerry W5K
Hands down, no contest: The Millen 90651 or 90651A. See http://www.qsl.net/jms/90651.html 73, Jerry W5KP There http://www.anwireless.com List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower
The military and DoD use some humongous LPA's. As I recall, ours (Navy Comm Station) were good for 8-32 mhz. FAA also uses them. They are extremely large and use a pretty good sized tower section for
We didn't, either, wasn't allowed. Of course, occasionally you have to tune up somewhere for a short transmitter test. :-) 73, Jerry W5KP List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower
You're probably right, Pete, but that 15 KW up there at 200+' fed by a big pressurized heliax hardline can make up for a lot of disadvantage in gain! 73, Jerry W5KP range. List Sponsored by AN Wirele
Actually, there's no such thing as a "DSL line". DSL is just a multiplexed signal riding on the copper of your existing phone line. So the best protection you can come up with for your phone line mod
Paul makes an excellent point, which I neglected to mention. Phone line surge protectors will all attenuate the DSL signal, some more than others. If you have a good DSL signal at your house you'll n
I don't know either of you gentlemen, so pardon me for interrupting, but could you please take the back-and-forth off the reflector and over to private e-mail? I get a lot of excellent info from this
Heck, just out of pure curiosity, what if you have two or three feet of dirt and solid rock under that in the vicinity of the base of your tower, like at my place? Solid rock doesn't make a very good
Mike, those who have not put up one of these would likely not believe the true costs involved if they were stated. In my case, I'm almost ready for a boom truck to finish putting up only 80' of 45G.
Add concrete contractor to dig holes and build rebar cages, concrete at $90 a yard, coax, rotator, rotor cable, connectors, mast, crane rental, and erection crew, I guess my $10K swag was a tad low.
Re Force 12, hope I wasn't too hard on them. They still make the best mass-produced antennas in the world, as far as I'm concerned. This talk about them not doing their famous preassemble and drill t
Hmmm... Could someone suggest exactly what a "non critical" application for tower sections would be, assuming humans will climb whatever structure they are a part of? 73, Jerry W5KP List Sponsored by
After bitching yesterday about the drips and runs I had to grind off to make the sections fit together, further inspection reveals lines of little razor sharp zinc whiskers 1/8" - 1/4" long up and do
I'd like to back up the single bolt that ties the equalizer plates to the guy anchor eye, but I don't see a handy way to do it, since the eq plates cover the eye on the anchor rod pretty much complet
For mail order, I've used both Texas Towers and National Electronics; they both have web pages and fairly knoledgeable people, provided good stuff, and shipped quickly. Any good wire rope/rigging sup
Here's my plug for Phillystran and grips: I was a bit apprehensive about the grip installations, having never used grips period, let alone on Phillystran. But surprisingly, mine all went on slicker t
Trolling for experience-backed opinions: Is a 75M rotatable dipole a waste of money if 92' is as high as one can install it? Would having it that low destroy the rotating advantage of the end nulls,