Sounds very exiting working off a saltwater beach. I have piece of information you should remember, the ends of the radials are very RF hot. I had a problem with that once. A neighbor of mine was wat
Anybody on the list that knows where I can find user information about these cheapo BAOFENG transceivers? I bought one and it seems to work OK, but can't figure out how to use some of its features. B
Yes Steve I know, but I had no better way to try. I did get the answers though. Thanks everyone. ... and thank you, Steve, for this great forum. I will keep the abuse to a minimum. with best 73 de, H
Thank you all for all the advice I received regarding the little, dirt cheap radio. As this topic really doesn't belong on this reflector I would appreciate if any further comments are send directly
Hi Matt, Your idea is possible to implement but with what you have to do you might just select to allow a severe storm bend that top mast. The guy wire has to have the correct spring coefficient. As
Hi John, I have (most of it) Heights Tower parts but added in some "missing" parts from Universal Towers. When I was finished it added up to 85 feet. (With the guy wires 20 sqf will survive 135 mph w
Hi Markku, As I have lived in both Sweden and USAI think I can give you some extra insight in the mechanism erecting aradio tower in USA. USA is a country ruled by lawyers andinsurance company. That
As far as I know our tower, restricted for ham radio use and erected under PRB1 etc, are exempt from tax. You will find that text at the end of the ordnance. Hans - N2JFS I recently took out a buildi
My first recommendation is to re-anchor the lose and the missing guy wires. I, myself, use screw-anchors and have had no problems with them. With the help of some "come-along" you should be able to s
Hi Charles, I dare to say anything conducting seems to work. It's hard to tell exactly until it is tested. I used aluminum foil to screen off my entire shack (which probably is an overkill but a 1 in
I think Ian has expressed the main reason for the "Back-desk-grounding-rod". The word "grounding" should be avoided as a connection to the ground/earth is not that essential. Getting the different "b
The problem boils down to what dielectric or in this case what insulation you can find for your wires. Teflon insulation is good but expensive. I don't know the characteristics of "regular house" wir
Gary, We got away with plenty of things by not paying attention to what "really" happened. I imagine you could pass 100W power through a ziip cord but you had no (or little) idea how big the losses w
There are (or "were') sealed (that is; O-ring equipped shaft and hermetic electric feed-through connectors) available. They are normally under military specifications and fairly expensive unless you
You are not able to measure the losses in a coax when you terminate it with a matched load (such as a dummy). The 56 ohms you are reading is the total error in the meter, the coax and the dummy load.
What I remember from my engineering school (as much I wanted to remember from those "Mechanical" classes. I belonged to the elite: The electric and electronic groups. It didn't help that much when it
Have the same experience hanging various verticals from trees. I guess if you have a perfect, non-conducting tree it will work. Unfortunately trees are somewhat conducting, enough to mess up the radi
Thank you, Gary, I have always wondered how surrounding (vertical) trees are affecting the radiation from a vertically radiating antenna. There are (probably) as many opinions about this (or many be