Tom offers great advise...also, contact the Police and Fire Chief to see if there is a volunteer group of hams that provide Auxiliary Communications Services (ACS)like RACES or ARES. If you are lucky
Hi folks, This year we got the garden done early and I'm having time to work on the 3 ele 40m beam project. Today I assembled a boom that is about 47ft long. The boom material is .250" wall 3" OD. Th
Thanks but I've had the dipole element up for over 5 years in King George County...have had 31 trees blow over but the antenna is just fine so far. What about the boom question. Truss connection...al
Hi Folks, ...performing annual maint. on the old crank-up and this is the first year we've thought to check the oil level in the crank-up reduction gear. Have no documentation on the oil used in thes
Thanks All...this is a TRI-EX CT-100...80-90 gear oil should do it. Best, dave wa3gin _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing
yup...I use the spray cable lub the year I replaced the cables and they are holding up nicely... Thanks, dave wa3gin -- Original Message -- From: K7LXC@aol.com To: towertalk@contesting.com ; wa3gin@c
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Relax Rick, This is about antenna towers... --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick Karlquist Sent: Wednesday, May 06,
http://www.g6csy.net/chile/recipes/Amateur%20Radio%20Field%20Day%20Chili.txt If that one is too much on the radio side the link below has numerous other recipes that may work for you. http://www.g6cs
GOOF OFF is another cleaner sold at most hardware and drug stores works great but like those listed below note the WARNING labels: These product contain chemicals known to the state of California to
It might be more fun to get an outdoor shed, a battery, a solar cell charger and put the radio in the shed and run it with an 802.11G wireless link back to the house. No long runs of wires to worry a
He can place a thrust bearing just below KT-34 and run the guys from there if he wanted to do so. I'd use philistran, not steel. You have a nice set-up now. Steel guy wires might effect the yagi's pe
I wonder how the ball bearings know the difference between vertical and horizontal loads and all the points between? Boys up here usually run two thrust bearings so they can remove the rotor for main
Craig, Try taking your worn out parts to a local machine shop. They'll be happy to reproduce the parts for you. Our last supplier of TRI-EX towers, cables, and parts is a small operation and has to m
Easy Dave, Its all subjective at the end of the day in Ham Radio via email... there just isn't sub-text or body language to help clarify statements. Enjoy, dave wa3gin -- Original Message -- From: "D
Hi Alan, Yes, we have two mounted in our ETSU, one is 30ft and the other is 61ft. They can carry weight but not wind-load unless you purchase the locking section model which also requires guy wires.
Hi Folks, Tesla's wireless power transfer has returned targeting the hundreds of millions of cell phone owners! I wonder how far from the 30M source the signal used to charge these devices can be hea
Lee, I had a couple of these GEM Quads, two ele version. The first one worked well but the glass spreader elements began to deteriorate after several years. The second one I installed I dipped the sp
Ward, Your note reminded me how I feed my GEM QUAD. I used parallel runs of RG213 with a home brew open frame relay coax switcher. Very quiet feedline for a city lot...had a hombebrew tuner on the ot
The aluminum rivets melted out of the tower sections while in the acid dip...I know the owner and he replaced the revits with stainless steel bolts. I climbed the tower last year. Its in fine shape w