PCBs were banned in the late 70's and were to be removed from service. It is unlikely you will find any PCB type oil now. This is based on a study from Japan where PCB oil was mistaken for cooking o
Oops, I meant raise the flash point. VE6YC ________________________________________________________________________ Where do you get ICE bandpass filters & beverage matching boxes? The same place th
With all due respect to Natan, and F12: I had some great chats with Tom when he just started up his company. I doubt that he would remember me (as VE6NAO) but I also turned on one of my friends to th
What?? Don't use the black phaze tape?? Peter VE6YC List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower systems, Trylon Titan towers, coax, hardline and more. Also check out our self suppo
Hi Doug: My 800 was doing the same. When I finally went up the tower I found that the socket head through bolt had broken off. No gears were broken and an easy fix. I hope that your problem is the sa
I did something similar to my old 511 Cushcraft. It has been up and down my short tower several times over the last 12 years. Now it is a copy of a A50-5S. I went to Cushcraft's web site and down loa
Dang, I was hoping for another owl facing north thread ;-) (sorry Steve,) BTW Steve's comments were right on the target. Peter VE6YC _______________________________________________ See: http://www.m
Hy-Gain (MFJ) still sells the parts, but the shipping is outrageous!! (shipping cost more than the parts did here to Calgary) I haven't heard this before, but I think you might end up with too much
Will there be a "next round of tests"? Yahoo!! (more money for me to spend) I hope the SteppIR is in the next round of tests as well as the XA and the 5XR :-) Thanks for a thought provoking report S
Sorry, but this is wrong. What is happening is called "induction" This is the same thing that your transformer does. Volts per turn is the formula for changing from a high voltage to a low voltage.
For electrocution avoidance, if you can go twice the height of your tower that is a good rule of thumb. Off of 12 KV there won't be much induction unless you are right under it. Long wires run in pa
I would put them at 1 wave length each. Good high angle take off as well as a good lower lobe. (30 and 60 degrees if I remember right) Peter VE6YC _______________________________________________ See
It would appear that some one on the list has the netsky virus. If you are on the vnet.hu service could you please check your computer. The virus has spoofed both admin@towertalk.com and admin@amateu
Ask about the DX'er Plus. The first one was built for a local (VE6KBS) And he has a killer signal, even with his QRP set up. Peter VE6YC _______________________________________________ See: http://w
You may not be correct about the hard ware. I had a Garant Beam (out of Ontario) that had hard ware just like my TH-3, but it had only one trap on the 3 elements. It was a GB-3. I also had a System
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
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
I agree. Plus it must be a bit exciting to see a bit of history come out of the ground. When my company was building a new substation by the Bow River they came across an old camp site. Lots of arti
I have one in my pile of old books. I got it in 1980, and haven't cracked the cover yet ;-) Peter _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting
Depending on the pole used and the line voltage, all the hawk needs to do is touch the pole and the wire. Big puff of flaming bird and fire. End of story!! OK if I may be permitted, once I was up a