BlankHi All I recently took some 75 foot sections RG-8X coax off of a pair of 40 meter verticals and found the center and shield was all black. I mentioned it here and some said it was from water ing
Hi Bill With a StepIR on top of a tower, wouldn't it make a difference which band the StepIR is tuned for for the sloper to work? If the top antenna is like a ground plane, it seems as though the low
Who needs a spell checker? I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't
I'm not sure what flex weave is composed of, but I did see some that a guy here had in a 160 meter antenna and it rusted. I think the wire he had must have had some iron in it or something. Looked ki
Hi Mickey Just move to Coos Bay, OR. Permits--don't need no stinkin' permits here :-) Dig a hole and put 'er up. 73 Tom W7WHY Congratulations, Hans! Perhaps after you have your tower up, you'll share
Hi Tony How are you going to use this antenna? All band?? Single band?? If using it for all band, easiest thing would be to feed it with twin lead to the tuner. 73 Tom W7WHY All, I have a 38 foot fib
I have a few SO-239 connectors that will be exposed to the weather. I want to seal them from the elements. Can anyone suggest some "goop" that will do that without messing up the RF characteristics ?
You have to be really careful heating bamboo. That stuff will explode when you throw it in a fire. I guess the moisture in the sections heats up and gives off steam. One 4th of July we were throwing
HI Dick That SWR run actually looks pretty good. I have exactly the same setup here and my SWR is a little lower than yours--1.5:1 at resonance. You have to remember that the impedance of that 160 me
Hi Jim -- I think the rule of thumb is, if you have a choice of tuning configurations, the one with more capacity and less inductance is the preferred one. Seems like I also remember reading that if
Hi Andy I guess that is better than having them made in Indonesia or China. At least the employees are here in the U.S. And, when I have called them on the phone, I could understand what they were sa
Watching them go up the last 50 feet or so made me wonder just what would happen if one of those climbing pegs snapped off. Be a LONG way down. At that height seems like they would get kinda rusty. 7
This man was in an accident and was therefore required to fill out an insurance claim form. The insurance company contacted him and asked for additional information. This was his response: "I am writ
BlankHI All I have a Daiwa CR-4 rotor and box with the 1-motor rotor. The rotor is working fine, but the box has gone screwy. When I rotate the antenna the indicator goes to the north as the antenna
A geat big Rubber Ducky?? :-) 73 Tom W7WHY The problem is, I don't know how to get power to a dipole without using a feedline ;) So the potential for imbalance is always there in a practical system.
BlankI want to put some radials under my 80/160 vertical antenna. If I take some 300 ohm ribbon, attach one side to the radial connection, short the far end and leave the other wire open, would that
HI Dan Sometimes my tower gets stuck like that and I just release the brake and let it down just a little and reset the brake, then grab the top guy and wiggle it a little. Usually that lets it come
Hi John I clicked on your link and went right to the page. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTal
H This might seem like a silly question, but I just put up a 15 meter delta loop and wanted to wind a RF choke coil at the antenna. I am matching the antenna with a 1/4 wave matching section. Is is O
There was an article in NCJ some time back about a ham back east who got a permit for 4 towers. He got sued, and according to the article, spent $160,000 defending putting up the towers. He won the