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1. [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Mark Beckwith" <mark@concertart.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:12:40 -0500; Hi Antenna Gurus. I inherited a Heath Cantenna. How do I know if it is deadly and should be disposed of at the anonymous toxic waste depository or if it is inert and harmless? It says on it Model HN3; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00086.html (7,292 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 11:29:45 -0700; Why would it be deadly? They're filled with oil. You're probably thinking about PCBs? They were used as a replacement for oil (non-flammable, non-toxic (in general), non-reactive, non-spoiling). The; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00088.html (9,331 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "AA6DX" <aa6dx@pacbell.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 11:52:22 -0700; Mark, that's plumb silly. All the xfmrs outside my house most likely have that crap in them, as I live in an old house ... in an old town .. alongside an old transmission line .. and, I used to .. wa; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00090.html (8,465 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: Joe <WD0M@centurytel.net>; Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:16:07 -0600; Seems that the EPA has decided PCBs are a danger, albeit if safely handled, the risk is minimized: "How can I tell whether a piece of equipment contains PCBs? "Check for a manufacturer's label, which; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00091.html (10,764 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: BobK8IA@aol.com; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:24:09 EDT; You're probably thinking about PCBs? Let's not get too hasty and complacent here. In the early-mid 70s before the PCB transformer notoriety, in Detroit for sure, many amateurs were having their dummy; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00093.html (8,451 bytes)
6. RE: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Dave Bernstein" <aa6yq@ambersoft.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:27:10 -0400; I can just hear Joseph Fiennes, who played Shakespeare in "Shakespeare in Love", saying "Asbestol ... good name!". 73, Dave, AA6YQ Seems that the EPA has decided PCBs are a danger, albeit if safely h; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00094.html (11,823 bytes)
7. RE: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>; Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:39:01 -0400; At 03:27 PM 6/6/2004, Dave Bernstein wrote: I can just hear Joseph Fiennes, who played Shakespeare in "Shakespeare in Love", saying "Asbestol ... good name!". We're getting a little far afield for To; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00095.html (8,727 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: Rick Tavan <tavan@tibco.com>; Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:01:30 -0700; Mark, OM - you have very dangerous contraband on your hands! You should immediately drain the oil into a clean, glass container. Dry the inside of the can with paper towels and re-install the lid wit; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00097.html (8,607 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Tower (K8RI)" <tower@rogerhalstead.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:04:59 -0400; Hey! I saw it first....<:-)) Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member) N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2) www.rogerhalstead.com or Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00100.html (10,197 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: Peter Larsen <ve6yc@shaw.ca>; Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:33:19 -0700; The study that claimed that PCBs were potentially carcinogenic was based in Japan. By accident cooking oil was contaminated with transformer oil (this was back in the sixties when transformer oil wa; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00102.html (8,731 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:03:40 -0700; Oil, or askarel? transformer oil, per se, isn't likely to be contaminated with dioxins (the real problem). Oil has almost always been cheaper than the PCBs, so if the utility had a choice, they'd pro; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00104.html (11,669 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Mark Beckwith" <mark@concertart.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 18:59:30 -0500; I wrote earlier: or Then I came back alter and read all the great comments / advice / etc. I especially liked the "Asbestol" line. What a FABULOUS read. I guess I got duped by what amounts to an old; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00105.html (8,951 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: BobK8IA@aol.com; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 20:22:16 EDT; Jim's latest was a wonderful jog on my old memory. I do recall the biggest "problem" back then being the PCB's found in power capactitors and not necessarily what was in transformers. It started when; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00106.html (12,417 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:08:14 -0400; was a high "awareness" never hit the company concentrations or chronic In the early 70's I was swapping old radios to a local Toledo Edison employee for old 4160-volt pole pigs. They had PCB oil ins; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00109.html (9,255 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 18:59:35 -0700; Mark, I was in the same situation as you several years ago (e.g. I picked up a used cantenna at a hamfest). I dumped the old "unknown" liquid into a plastic jug and drew a skull and crossbones on the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00110.html (10,884 bytes)
16. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Tower (K8RI)" <tower@rogerhalstead.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:03:39 -0400; Let me try that again... Last time I hit send before typing anything. I would assume the opposit. As PCBs were normally more expensive I'd expect to find mineral oil in them. However as my pappy poin; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00111.html (10,469 bytes)
17. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: Peter Larsen <ve6yc@shaw.ca>; Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 21:19:12 -0700; While you are sweet talking them, ask them to run a test for PCBs on your present oil. Every truck in our shop has the little kits for this. Also they expire in one year so we are always running fak; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00112.html (9,537 bytes)
18. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:01:17 -0700; Shell Diala-AX is but one insulating oil... About $25/5 gallon pail last time I bought it (from L.T. "Lee" Sawyer in Van Nuys, a Shell Jobber).. Univolt is another brand. Castrol has a brand which I; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00113.html (12,192 bytes)
19. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:13:14 -0700; In large quantities (>1000 gallons) almost all reasonably pure liquids cost about $2-3/gallon, oil is no exception. I used to work at a place where we used to get deliveries of several thousand gallo; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00115.html (10,738 bytes)
20. Re: [TowerTalk] Heath Cantenna (score: 1): Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>; Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:07:16 -0700; Jim are you sure about that? The reason I ask is that both the Heath and the MFJ Cantenna style dummy loads specify duty cycle curves for mineral oil and "transformer oil". For 1KW, the duty cycle fo; /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-06/msg00119.html (10,130 bytes)

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