Kostats touched on one important factor. No two stations are the same. And while the problems are all in the same sets of families, the specific cause and specific fix varies. It can take a lot of
In early July I will be taking down the 40m 4-element monster that put local legend Fred N0XA into the "worked-em-all" category by crane. Fred passed into the SK record book with 352 total and I thi
The price of a connector varies with the value you put on replacing a failed one. If that happens up at 100+ feet, then an extra buck for a good connector is a pretty good investment. If your conne
While one can argue as to the absolute need for a DIN vs. other connector type, I'm pretty sure that everyone who has used DIN will confirm - a DIN is a vedddddyyyyy great connector. I hate N connect
Yea no problem also with hardline specifically because the pin is nailed into the plastic. It's 213 + N-type with the simple single-center press-in pin type that I had bad luck with. 73/jeff/ac0c al
I have 40 and 30m beams on a single tower and modeling of those shows virtually zero interaction. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com On 15-Jul-18 8:21 PM, DALE LONG wrote: Paul Perh
I bought the same harness a couple of months back. It's got a built-in chair. Was on the tower Friday for about 12 hours and while my feet and body were really unhappy with the long time on the tow
My experience with quite a number of the JKs is that they use machined aluminum clamp sets for the boom. I personally don't like working with antennas on the ground so I build them on a trio of saw
Looking for ideas on a rack system to hold aluminum tubing. I have reciently put up a building and have a length of wall for it but can't think of a great way to organize the tubing. Like to build so
Finished the 15m stack wiring yesterday in anticipation of perhaps getting it into action on this weekend's RTTY DX contest. But of course there were virtually no signals on the band. What I heard w
It's not the rotor - it's a side effect of the PWM coming from the GH controller and transmitted by the rotor wires. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com John KK9A I have motor noise
Scott, I had runs of 213 laying on the grass in my yard in KS (about 300' run length each) for 5 years and never had a single critter issue. Plenty of mower and trimmer damage to control wires but n
A local has one of those - he's very active in contesting and dx so the amp gets used a LOT. Excellent amp but super sensitive to feedline & switching integrity. I think in each case he has tracked
A big HP system is totally impractical for the average guy. I have a rack of the old stuff here so i'm not saying it's got no place, rather when you are out in the rain and the mud, you need somethi
I've got two Big Raks. The both work great! 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com On 17-Dec-18 11:36 AM, Marv Shelton wrote: I just purchased a used/never used Alpha Spid Rotator and
I would second the GH controller recommendation as well. Lot of granular control on the ramp up and ramp down rates which is handy if you have a big load on the rotor. Have two GH here for my two S
My 40m 4sq works just fine in the 4 normal directions. But when I put it into the OMNI mode, the swr jumps up to about 1.7:1. wondered if anyone had seen this sort of issue and knew what the usual s
As a previous KT owner, I can also say there is a lot of wisdom in this message on so many topics! 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com On 09-Jan-19 8:54 PM, Tony Brock-Fisher via Tow
I guess if I had answered "billions and billions" of on-topic questions on the reflector of a lot of years, I would probably not sweat the question of strict-topic-conformance very much either. Plus
I have two of these on towers. Been through a number of ice storms this winter alone. Zero issues. Recommended. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com Electrically you will be happy