I recently moved to a new QTH and want to put up a 70' tower for a 20m monoband yagi and a 15/10 duoband yagi. I have 10 acres, but the terrain is challenging. Almost all of it is on a fairly steep s
Having done this myself, the answer is sure you can put up a guyed tower on a slope. What's important to maintain are the angles of the guys to the tower and the tension on them. If you maintain the
Good advice. I did exactly that with my tower, where the terrain slopes both a little and a lot, depending on directlon. I'm in a rather dense redwood forest. The guys going in one direction hit the
Thanks Jim and JP. That's very useful information. I don't have massive redwood trees. All of the trees on my property are live oaks and the largest is probably only 25' tall and not very massive, so
Ditto. My 110' Rohn 55 tower is on a steep slope. The base is on a narrow strip of relatively flat ground that's not much wider than the base in the uphill/downhill direction, but stretches away from
The total run from shack to antenna feedpoint is 350 ft. I'm using a combination of half-inch and 3/4-inch Andrew heliax that I bought from the estate of a local ham. 73, Jim K9YC ___________________
My run will be approx. 400-450 feet, so I'll have to find a similar source of hardline. 73, Jerry _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tower
It has been suggested many times on this list that we contact CATV companies to ask for their junk lengths of CATV hard line. Yes, it's 75 ohms, but the loss is quite small, and the additional loss d
My local cable company (Comcast) used to give away the occasional short ends (less than 100 feet), but closed their scrap yard a couple of years ago, citing the tight economy and the rising price of