Hi Pat I'm using a KW-80 coil from Unidilla here. It works really well. I have my anenna set up as an inverted L and am very pleased with it. I have it set for the CW band and the SWR is low on both
Hi Jeff et al Are you guys talking about SOS pads or steel wool? SOS pads have a lot of soap in them that gets into everything. Steel wool has no soap. I have used steel wool here bofore and it works
H'mmm, that's a pretty broad statement. How about people who don't have antenna analyzers? Don't put up antennas? I been putting antenns up for over 50 years and only had an analyzer for the last 2 y
Hi Mark Not sure if that is like the rotor I used to have, but on the one I had, there was a lever on the bottom of the control box that set the end stop for the rotor. You could swing the rotor all
I think that day has already arrived Dave. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com
Hi Mike Kinda like "Axe Men." I worked in the woods for Weyerhaeuser over 30 years and have never heard of someone working in the woods being called an "Axe Man." In fact, 'lumberjack' is another wor
Hi TT'ians I have a 275 watt Matchbox antenna tuner that is in really nice shape, with a blown bandswitch. I purchased another 'junker' from a guy, and really, the only thing wrong with it is the pla
Hi Jeff Don't think mounting on a chimney is a good idea. Most are brick and mortar and are not very sturdy. Probably a small roof tower would work better. 73 Tom W7WHY ______________________________
Thanks to Roger and some others, the coil is now in one piece, (although probably not as pretty as it was before. The hot glue gun worked perfect. I put a piece of plastic under the wires and hot mel
I have used Vasoline here for a long time. I put it on contacts on beams, rotor cables, and after years, you can wipe it off and the metal under it is as good as new. I even had a beam attached next
Hi Bob I was thinking the exact same thing :-) I'd rather ADD a tower than REPLACE a tower with another one. 'Course,there may be extenuating circumstances that rules out 2 towers, therefore bigger i
I'd think there may be an electrolisis problem hooking copper to steel. I know on my verticals, I have copper from the center conductor of the coax hooked to the aluminum tubing and I'm forever havin
Hi Felipe I have some stubs here and they don't seem to be affected so much by where I put them. I put mine right on the antenna switch so that they can be used by either radio when running SO2R. I h
Hi Marinus I actually had one of those up for a while. I had a ~70 foot wire from grounded to the top of the tower at about 50 feet, and 2 54' wires at about the 20 foot level, fed with coax with the
Hi All If anyone is looking for some Polyphasers, there's some on QTH.com for sale at this link: http://swap.qth.com/c_radiohf.php?page=2 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________
Hi All Tht didn't look like what I thought a folded unipole was. I had an antenna here made out of 450 ohm open wire where I fed one side of the twinlead at the bottom (like a regular vertical) conne
Hi Michael Most of the time if you want to feed it like this, you hook a piece of twinlead from one antenna to the other. You put 1 twist in the line for phasing. Then hook the feeder to the center o
Hi Steve I guess everyone would have to see my tower to believe it. I have a 32 foot 2 section crank up. The base has 1 bag of cement. I had the welder at work make a house bracket for me. It is held
Even if there is a dead short where the antenna attaches to the feedline, there should be a minimum somewhere. Very narrow, but minimum. I know from experience whence I speak :-). I'd check the tuner
Wouldn't this in a sense be a vertical G5RV antenna. l73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@con