Thank you for the many replies both on & off list. It appears I will just have to let things be as they are. Being on a salt marsh, any storm that raises the salt water level excessively gets onto th
I'm having to play games with setting up eight, short, active vertical elements on an incredibly rocky area. I am not able to drive in ground rods, much less the base of the antennas. I'm coming up w
My goodness, more answers than I expected. Thank you. I am in a somewhat difficult place, ham-wise. The problem is I am on the ocean, not directly on the ocean, but sheltered by Long Island Sound, in
Apologies, I earlier replied under the wrong thread header. Should have been under wind loading... 73, Gary KA1J _______________________________________________ ______________________________________
I need to replace my old Tailtwister & control. It was stuck most of last winter and would not free up till I manually worked it back & forth and finally broke it free. It still has moments of hesita
Folks, Thank you for the direct and list, informative replies. So many direct replies and I am grateful & I'll reply to each directly but I'll use the list to offer a global reply right now. There wa
Folks, Thanks again for all the on & off list replies. I looked at the options and decided to go with the Green Heron 21D controller with the larger readout & an Alpha Spid RAK. I thought about the b
Folks, Just to make this a separate thread from the coax loop one; For those who have Alpha Spid rotors and route your coax through the rotor, how do you handle that? There seems to be no need for a
To me it's a no-brainer. We need to speak up. We have to let others know what is happening. I posted this to this list, it was first on the Elecraft list so I brought it to the attention to us on thi
Folks, Apologies, I meant this to go to Topband, not here, though the message about WWV on the chopping block applies here as well. There is less than a month for the online petition to the White Hou
I just connected the Alfa spid I have up in the shack, today. All in it seems to work fine. The instructions do have the CW & CCW terminals reversed and it definitely is turning properly. On this pag
I just connected the SPID RAK to the GH RT-21D in the shack today, just to be sure all is working and I understand its operations before putting it on the roof. All seems to be working well but I'd l
2nd try, the 1st one didn't seem to make it. Apologies if this is a repost... I just connected the SPID RAK to the GH RT-21D in the shack today, just to be sure all is working and I understand its op
Thank you for the replies, I have it understood. This is going to be a fun rotor & controller. 73, Gary KA1J _______________________________________________ __________________________________________
Ed, FWIW, I'm using what used to be an INV-L. I laid out a radial bed as well as possible, next to a marsh. I am in a hurricane area and with the winds, the trees have fallen over. I originally shot
I am in the process of pounding in grounding rods between the breaker box, the roof mounted antenna ground wire and the coax entrance. I will be bonding all together. The choice of wire I'm not sure
Thanks, From the comments I've received, what I needed to know. 73, Gary KA1J _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list To
I have motor noise when I rotate the new SPID RAK & I've held off asking here till I completed properly grounding the house, coax & rotor lines. Unfortunately it hasn't helped the issue I'm having wi
There are four wires to the rotator; two for DC and two for control. There are small disc caps attached to each of the control lines with a common wire to ground which is screwed to the protective co
Interesting. With it attached to the coax I haven't tried rotating it with a separate DC source to check. Another thing I noticed is when I attached the antenna to a separate radio connected by a bat