From what I've read in the archives and elsewhere, "Big Grips" are the default standard for terminating tower guy wires. That said, other than cost, is there some good reason to avoid the "automatic"
I've just recently (re)subscribed to this list, so I don't have the whole thread, but this paper might be of interest: http://k6mhe.com/n7ws/Plating.pdf Wes N7WS On 12/27/2016 1:30 PM, jimlux wrote:
Thanks everyone for your comments. My real concern was that someone would say something like, "Oh no no, don't ever use those." I'm not hearing that so all is good. My actual application is pretty mo
I never buy wire at the big box. Here in Tucson we have an electrical products store that caters to the trade, but likes business from DIY too. They are about half the price of big box and they are l
We've all done it. On 12/28/2016 1:43 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote: I wish to apologize for the caustic tone of my post this morning in which I questioned Guy's statements regarding degradation of RF curre
They've been mentioned several times. Each time I would vaguely recall the experiences of a couple of our club members. Talk to LB. 73, Dick, W1KSZ _______________________________________________ ___
73, Dick, W1KSZ Probably not: http://www.cebik.com/about.htm Nevertheless there are some partial archives: https://archive.org/details/Cebik-Antennas _______________________________________________ _
http://www.mgs4u.com/fiberglass-tube-rod.htm On 1/20/2017 7:33 AM, Jim Thomson wrote: Where do you folks buy the solid white fiberglass insulators like what F12 and M2 uses on their yagis ? They have
The beads described earlier appear to be Fair-Rite Products P/N 2643800302. Judging by the chart http://www.fair-rite.com/product/round-cable-emi-suppression-cores-2643800302/ the impedance of these
The problem with this "logic" is that the gain increase in favored directions comes at the expense of gain in non-favored directions. With a stationary antenna, "gain" might not be a blessing. Person
By that logic, the slab of my garage floor should be about five feet thick at one corner. Instead, a reinforced concrete stem wall constrains engineered backfill that was placed in 6 inch lifts and b
The new concrete won't adhere very well to the old and will probably crack. (Here in AZ almost all houses are slab-on-grade. There is a saying, "There are two types of concrete slabs, those that are
If you follow this link http://k6mhe.com/n7ws/Ladder_Line.pdf to my paper and look at Table 1, it gives the measured values of four different Wireman P/Ns. Note that these are 50 MHz values and trans
Ask your attorney to check into it. On 2/6/2017 10:11 AM, dw wrote: Hi all, I'm toying with the purchase of property in Kansas. The sight is plenty large enough for a tower or two. But I've never don
At the time I made the original measurements my instrumentation (HP-8510) had a low frequency limit of 45 MHz and I had a space limitation. Consequently, I couldn't measure at the frequencies where l
Not defending this at all but... there shouldn't be any, or close to no attenuation. It's a short length of high quality coax. Since they claim it's built to customer specifications, and they don't q
Absolutely not. The way I read the data presented, it's all about input match, which says absolutely nothing about the common mode impedance, which is the actual choking mechanism. Return loss, SWR,
Pontiac (Holden) before they went of business, sold me a car that will easily go faster than I (at my age) want to go. Probably twice the speed limit, except maybe in Texas. I routinely use this exce
Maybe so, I could be wrong. But my experience has been with RG142 which I had a bunch of at one time. In the AZ sunshine the jacket cracked and I had a mess of tarnished silver on my hands. And if yo
I defy you to find where I ever said I thought this was a good idea, a good deal or that I was in anyway interested in purchasing one. On 2/18/2017 11:33 AM, Jim Thomson wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017