- 1. [TowerTalk] Advice requested (score: 1)
- Author: bill@axelrods.org (Bill Axelrod)
- Date: Thu Jun 19 16:13:53 2003
- I finally have gotten the go-ahead from the neighborhood antenna police (read home owners association) to put up a mini beam on a mast at about 30 ft or so. That's a pretty big breakthrough. So, befo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00279.html (8,646 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Advice requested (score: 1)
- Author: jimlux@earthlink.net (Jim Lux)
- Date: Thu Jun 19 16:37:47 2003
- The usual TV antenna type mast has guy wires (because that 1.5" thinwall tubing just isn't all that strong). I assume though that bringing up the enhanced safety aspect of guy wires isn't appropriate
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00280.html (11,170 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] Advice requested (score: 1)
- Author: ersmar@comcast.net (ersmar@comcast.net)
- Date: Thu Jun 19 16:40:34 2003
- Bill: Your requirements that the antenna support structure be both non-guyed and a single pipe are somewhat mutually exclusive unless you decide on a short tubular tower like the US Tower MA-40, but
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00281.html (11,127 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] Advice requested (score: 1)
- Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
- Date: Thu Jun 19 19:32:14 2003
- The C3SS works great. I don't think either of the other ones approach its performance. Or any other 'small' tribander for that matter. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TECH
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00289.html (8,158 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: brad.mugleston@gwl.com (Mugleston, Brad)
- Date: Fri Jun 20 10:21:35 2003
- The suggestion was made to: As a visual experiment, you might try temporarily erecting 30 feet of 2x4 painted white (or heck, 30 feet of PVC pipe, if the day is relatively windless) That is a great i
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00301.html (8,588 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Jun 20 10:30:00 2003
- For that matter, you might consider painting the entire antenna, mast and tower a low-visibility color. If a tree background, a dark grey-brown would probably be good, or if a sky background. conside
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00302.html (8,992 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: jimlux@earthlink.net (Jim Lux)
- Date: Fri Jun 20 21:42:58 2003
- 2x2 wood pieces available in 12 ft lengths are also fairly cheap.. They use 2x2 and 2x4 "masts" around here when they need to show where the corners of a proposed building are going to be for plannin
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00317.html (10,040 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Jun 21 06:52:28 2003
- Unfortunately, this isn't the whole story. I can see the 3/16" EHS guys on my tower from over 200 feet away. Super good eyes? Nope -- it isn't a matter of your eye actually being able to resolve the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00321.html (9,320 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: jimlux@earthlink.net (Jim Lux)
- Date: Sat Jun 21 11:56:44 2003
- Pete makes great points on resolution... my point was more to show the order of magnitude required...And, these very thin guys aren't really meant to be permanent, just to hold a stand-in up so that
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00322.html (10,462 bytes)
- 10. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: vfrpilot@mchsi.com (Command Duty Officer)
- Date: Sat Jun 21 13:15:14 2003
- on my tower from over 200 feet away. Super good eyes? Nope -- it isn't a matter of your eye actually being able to resolve the width of the guy wire, but rather the contrast between the color and/or
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00323.html (8,708 bytes)
- 11. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Jun 21 21:13:44 2003
- Ain't that the truth, Jim! 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 17 June 03. Are you current? www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00333.html (8,022 bytes)
- 12. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White, K4OJ)
- Date: Sat Jun 21 23:29:37 2003
- I get a rush of excitement when I see a big tower laden with yagis, myself - I visualize contacts about top be made using those weapons of propagational warfare.... On my way to the contest station a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00336.html (9,524 bytes)
- 13. [TowerTalk] Advice Requested (score: 1)
- Author: chuck@dxham.net (Chuck Sudds)
- Date: Sun Jun 22 00:28:30 2003
- And as a good friend told me many years ago..... BIG antennas HIGH in the sky work better than teeny weeny ones close to the ground!! Chuck K?TVD
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00341.html (8,025 bytes)
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