Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:40:08 -0500
Don't think you will have any problems keeping the cables together. I don't think cable ties is that good idea as they may cut into the the cable jackets. I use a combination of electric tape and REA
Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:25:32 -0500
You can run the twin line close to a coax or any metallic object for a short distant. I would suggest you use some distant, even so little, for this short run. It's a matter of what capacitance the i
Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:32:44 -0500
Jim, I was told (as a little child) when they installed the antenna system for the TV transmitter in Gothenburg, Sweden at the Brudarmossen tower, a tower I believe is around 1000' tall, they experie
Author: Mike Fahmie via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 03:19:20 +0000 (UTC)
You've all missed the boat this time. You should have stayed up last night to see Santa's direction arriving from the North Pole. -Mike-WA6ZTY From: Ed Karl <edk0kl@centurytel.net> To: "<towertalk@co
Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 02:55:41 -0500
Remember that cable. Was thinking of building some myself out of copper pipes and LEXAN discs. Didn't as it was a lot of work putting it together manually. Had the idea of putting the discs on random
Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 10:25:56 -0500
Neat! Hans - N2JFS Here! Hear! But interesting nevertheless. Always something to learn. And my bow out on this subject - check out what sat your sat dish is pointed at and go figure from there. http:
Author: RLVZ--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:13:37 -0500
I apologize if this has been mentioned numerous times before, but a Handheld GPS can be very useful for setting antennas to North. For example, a relatively inexpensive Magellan Explorist 200 can be
Author: Matt Brosious via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 17:38:48 +0000 (UTC)
A friend of mine suggested reconfiguring my inverted V on 80 meters for dx performance. I'm working with a model for the inverted V with the legs at 45 and 1' off the ground at the ends (.707 x f to
Author: David Gallatin via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:48:41 +0000 (UTC)
Hello all,Somehow I have gotten the idea that one's lightning arrestors are best placed at the bottom of the tower. This seems logical to me. Then I came across another piece that said, no, arrestors
Author: Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 03:02:45 +0000 (UTC)
I am trying to use my 95' tower for as many different antennas as possible. One of my current thoughts is to suspend/feed a full size 80m loop from the top and have it slope toward EU. I was wonderin
Author: Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:35:15 +0000 (UTC)
I actually do have the exact same setup- an inv-V at roughly 90' with both ends sloping a couple of hundred feet away from the tower. The apex is more likely ~120 degrees than 90. It works really wel
Author: Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:06:52 -0500
So here's a bit more of my thinking: my main goal is improved RX performance so does current distribution, presumably a TX consideration, really matter? The loop is recognized as a low noise antenna
Author: Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:39:00 +0000 (UTC)
OK, this sounds quite rationale and compelling. Will scrap the full size loop antenna. Any other creative suggestions on how to make the most of the tower for the lower bands? I don't plan on using i
Author: Kathy Bookmiller via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:02:30 -0800
We are trying to identify just what this yagi is of a recent SK. Took a few pictures of it the other day and have this description: We are still trying to help find someone who is interested in Fred'
Author: John King via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:46:53 -0800
I have a REMOTE DoiwKey relay with the nomenclature P/N 71 on it. It has seven female connectors on it. There are 6 connectors in a circle and 1 in the center which indicates to me that the feed line
Author: mike repinski via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 23:58:51 -0500
Could the antenna be changing somehow? Mike Has same behavior on dummy load? Try getting rid of all coax switches, surge suppressors, anything in the RF path to antenna, then swap out jumper cables &
Author: Bill via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:29:36 -0500
I can vouch for checking out QTHs by driving around. Before I actually set up my tower at KH6 I was working W9RE from my mobile from exactly where my tower was eventually going to be erected. The QSO
Author: TexasRF--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:25:34 -0500
So Tom, did you replace the SO239 rivets with screws yet? I think I saw two posts saying they had seen that problem/solution. 73, Gerald K5GW In a message dated 1/2/2015 9:11:20 A.M. Pacific Standard
Author: mike repinski via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 15:52:45 -0500
What does the 12 foot pole consist of? I recently put up the same tower and used a rope over the house pulled by my truck. The tower was easy till the rotor and antenna went on. Mike I am planning to
Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 18:15:14 -0500
Cheers! ....... antenna and rotor (when exactly did rotors become rotators? (Maybe about the time all problems became issues?) "Rotator" is not even in my spelling verifier. Hans - N2JFS ____________