Someone sent me a link to youtube in order to view videos of installs for antennas and towers and they are interesting and informative. I would like to download a few for viewing off line to my lapto
Bob Try: http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ or The latest freeware RealPlayer has a module that could download videos from YouTube. http://www.realplayer.com/ Marinus Willemstijn ZS6MAW --Origina
A couple (a few, but not many) years ago, the English language (the American version anyhow) lost the word "installation". Why? Conan the Grammarian, aka George T Daughters, K6GT CU in the California
Just watch out, some of those videos are great examples of how NOT to install towers or antennas. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MH
If you are using Mozilla Firefox you can use UnPlug which is an extension that lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it's a video download tool. I use it and it works great.
no worse than the crew in the picture on page 56 of the Nov QST doing what looks like a "iwo jima" of a fairly good sized tower with a single rope held by someone over their head and wrapped around t
I agree after looking at several of them, especially the one that has the guy walking the beam's boom that is being supported by only a mast and someone else holding it. Then there is the one which s
After seeing many of these the one question I am left with is: How do you get the ropes off of the antenna and/or mast once it is in place. Surely you dont reach way out to the end of the boom and re
The way I do it is to tie large loops in the guide ropes, I usually use 2 so I can steer it on the way up/down. I tie the loops with a bowline knot so they don't tighten up on the boom. The loop shou
The file that you need to download and install is found by clicking on the word "Enjoy" on the page not the "UnPlug 1.6.06". This is the patched version of Unplug. Sorry but I should have been clear