Might there be a problem using steel staples over copper wire? Isn't there an opportunity for dissimilar metal corrosion? I was wondering the exact same thing... Wouldn't rusty baling wire staples (o
Do not even think about using aluminum for radials... unless you are in some desert. I made a BIG mistake laying out about 5000 feet of Sears #17 aluminum fence wire thinking I was saving a lot over
dont... you will trash gears. Is a lot easier to re-aim than it is to swap out a rotator... Bill K2EK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ T
Geez It must be a slow month... This thing seems beat to death... For my 2 cents worth... I'd think peer pressure / censure from the amateur community would be enough to discourage the unscrupulous f
DON'T !!!! I made 2 BIG mistakes a while back in ENY... the first was using Sears Aluminum electric fence wire.... It turned to a white powder after a few years. The 2nd was using galvanized fence wi
Beeswax... Somewhere in my distant past I inherited a 4X3X2 brick of beeswax. It has followed me on 6 or 7 moves... Damned if I know what to do with it! Maybe someday I'll wind a transformer... More
Geez - considering the collective effort to analyze this, we could have (collectively) built 10 or more verticals for this guy.... One thing I do not remember reading in all of the posts... Was condu
So...do poles get good marks in the article? Does anyone remember Telrex ads from the 60s and early 70s? They would not recognize anything other than a wooden 'phone pole as suitable support for thei
The major issue with big poles is transportation... For a 100 to 120 footer, consider $25 to 50 per mile from forest to your place a bargain... That covers specialized truck, driver, escorts, permits
If you are good in the callbook, you can't burn a treated pole. In the US it is illegal, because of the treating. Hmmmm... what are the chances of the constabulary doing DNA testing on the ash?? Mean
Geez guys.. Burning pressure treated poles was a rhetorical question for some other guy's situation! For the record, I dont have any pressure treated stuff here other than the 9 2X4s I just planted t
Soldering on the back of the connector is easy and solid. I just finished soldering my second bag of 100 PL-259s since January 2007. It has been a busy summer with new phasing lines and chokes on man
...whereas the "recommended" installation per the Amphenol book is good to at least 300 MHz, and most are quite good even to 440 MHz. Doesn't everyone switch over to N connectors above 2M Somehow usi
Barry Thank you for that little story.... My very first 6M antenna was a Saturn 6 planted on a 5 foot mast clamped to a bathroom vent on the roof... all of 15 feet up... Almost as high as the 20M dip
Can I use hose clamps to secure the cable? Probably... Certainly for the small stuff. For what it is worth... I am using 5 SS (I hate rust) U-bolts to secure 65 feet of 1 5/8" hardline to my tower (t
Ken My first tower was a 50 foot crank-up crank-over by E-Z-Way.?? It mounted on a steel pole...? roughly?10-12 inches in diameter.? 9 feet or so above ground level that connected to the tower?via a
I agree that on the roof with resonant radials or on the ground with a lot of radials will both work well. Another affirmative roof mount vote. I put up a 1/4 vertical for 17M on my roof to work the
The line between AMATEUR and doing it right comes in to play with towers. 25G may be self supporting for a small TV antenna. Dont even think you can get away with a tribander. Do your self a real fav
Ever since I moved here I always seem to have some LONG cable run that needs to be buried just enough to avoid a mower encounter.... The really large hard-line run, plus assorted control cables, beve
Barry I am using 2" sched 40 PVC. It easily fits 2 runs of LMR400, 3 RG6 and 3 8 conductor rotator / relay control lines. Mine also went thru concrete, which I drilled out to size with a Hilti SDS ro