Group, I have 2 - F12 606 I stacked and phased together @ 13 ft spacing, my question is, the B-1 balun I had (about 5 years old ) is about 12 in long and the new one I was sent was 6 inches long. I m
What I run is 4 gauge copper 7 strand wire, its not cheap, and takes some time to cut each piece to the length you want, than pull apart the strands and bend them. They work great and if the ground i
Now thats something what QST needs in its pages. Pete NA2P _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", an
The groundING of the service goes to ground ONLY. The groundED neutral wire terminates at the transformer. In the transformer, the third (neutral wire) is used in the secondary winding of the transfo
No, What I am saying is ...the neutral wire should not be bonded to the ground sytem in series, to keep them seperate. The nuetral wire indeed grounds at the main panel, but not directly to ground ro
W9IXX maybe? Pete _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9
low temp snowmobile grease. Pete NA2P _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call To
US Tower TMM-433-SS US Tower TMM-433-SS , coax stand off arm and tower raising fixture with the tilt base. Tower is a 4 section crank up that raises to 33 feet and cranked down it nests at about 11 f
Force 12 C3-SS , a real antenna, I personally would not waste my money on anything else..OptiBeam maybe but a little over priced. 73 Pete _______________________________________________ See: http://w
A can of Automotive Brake cleaner or Carb cleaner should clean up that crap good. After its cleaned use Noalox to put it back together. Pete _______________________________________________ __________
Yup, Always a big problem of trying to teach old dogs new tricks...building codes change and so does material . Being in the building trades...I have seen ornamental ironworkers using epoxy for raili
Hollow tube towers of any kind can and always will have a problem of possibly rusting from the inside out. Pyrod solid leg tower seems like an expensive choice but a good one around salt water. Those
Maybe they will melt down all them noisy airplanes and make pennies out of them. hehe 73 Pete _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk
I am not sure why everyone needs these so call diagrams to replace cable, take off the old ones..measure replace. Not too hard of a job, esp if the tower is on the ground !!!!! Doing it while the tow
My Wife is a nurse, she told me the medical condition ( cant think of the name now) that happens after just a few minutes of dangling from a harness...the blood as it flows into your legs cant get ba
Inverted V here for 160, Apex at 55 ft, 36 inches off a crank up, ends about 15 ft above ground. 109/101 in 3 years. It sure works for what it is..25 bucks worth of material. The NA2P low band secret
Bill , I use one..turn a C-31XR and a WARC 221 like butter completely ice loaded and all in the wind. This rotator does not know antennas and mast are attached to it. I am very happy with mine. Plus
Coil at the 20 meter feedpoint..coiled hairpin match. Pete _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.
Who cares, and why has this stupid post still going on anyway? Must be nice to be able to waste time posting such useless stupid crap. Pete NA2P _______________________________________________ ______
I don't see how the ARRL and QST publishes has anything to do with towers and installations..like I said totally useless and crap. Complain to the ARRL or President Bush if you don't like what people