- 1. [TowerTalk] Tower ready! (score: 1)
- Author: tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Mon May 19 14:58:52 2003
- I am extremely happy to let you guys know that I have completed the building of my 45 meters high rotating tower. It has been a huge project for me. You can see the first pictures at: http://www.lhv.
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-05/msg00237.html (9,277 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] Stacking Distances (score: 1)
- Author: tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Thu May 22 09:50:49 2003
- I am a true advocate of 0.5 wl stacking in most of the practical situations. In real life the limiting factor for you is usually the height of the tower or the height of the upper antenna. So when we
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-05/msg00311.html (10,965 bytes)
- 3. [Towertalk] Free Standing 80M four square for sale (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 18:46:48 +0200
- Don't bother dreaming! :) I was seriously considering using the WIDE SPACED layout for my 80m 4Square with Comtek box as I had enough space and material. I abandoned the idea after a lot of modelling
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00093.html (11,767 bytes)
- 4. [Towertalk] C Connectors Wanted (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:15:38 +0200
- Start from RFC - http://www.therfc.com/ Joel made me some perfect C to UHF cable adapters for a fraction of the cost for the real adapter that some companies sell ( could be up to $ 100 - mark UG637/
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00164.html (9,141 bytes)
- 5. [Towertalk] PL259's (score: 1)
- Author: Tõnno Vähk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tõnno Vähk)
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:46:56 +0200
- I have ordered those from Joel at RFC quite a few times. 50 pieces last time and couldn't be more pleased. I have had no problems whatsoever with HP and they are very nice to solder and they look and
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-12/msg00361.html (8,291 bytes)
- 6. [Towertalk] Large Ferrite Beads? (score: 1)
- Author: Tõnno Vähk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tõnno Vähk)
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:00:21 +0300
- Hi, can anybody help me in finding ferrite beads that can be slipped on Heliax LDF4-50A? ID has to be 0.63" but the biggest ones I see in web are 0.5" ID (Amidon page, etc...) I want to make baluns f
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00210.html (8,927 bytes)
- 7. [Towertalk] Large Ferrite Beads? (score: 1)
- Author: Tõnno Vähk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tõnno Vähk)
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:53:45 +0300
- Chuck, thanks for that information. I wonder if anybody knows if those 0.61" ID would somehow fit LDF4-50A? I figured the next ones in ID are 0.75"! And is it OK to use short toroids instead of beads
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00292.html (9,690 bytes)
- 8. [Towertalk] Is there need for a Beverage when using a 4-Square? (score: 1)
- Author: Tnno Vhk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tnno Vhk)
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:00:56 +0200
- Hi Carsten, You can do well without it but it would not hurt for sure. I have 320-50-140-230 degrees 4Square and installed a 140 meters long beverage at 90 degrees to east for YB/VK, etc. It helps de
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-10/msg00837.html (9,524 bytes)
- 9. [Towertalk] Kevlar Guys (score: 1)
- Author: Tõnno Vähk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tõnno Vähk)
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:41:30 +0300
- I guess it also depends on what antennas you have on the tower. If just one monobander then it would be fairly easy to find nonresonant leghts of EHS guy wires with modelling. But if tribanders etc..
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-08/msg00001.html (8,513 bytes)
- 10. [Towertalk] Can I use SPG for beverage? (score: 1)
- Author: Tõnno Vähk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tõnno Vähk)
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:50:24 +0300
- I want to build up my first beverages this weekend. 1. Is it sensible to use my SPG good grounding system as a ground at beverage feedpoint? I have large metal plates buried in the ground next to the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-07/msg00475.html (8,001 bytes)
- 11. [Towertalk] Kevlar Guys (score: 1)
- Author: Tnno Vhk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tnno Vhk)
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:16:23 +0300
- Barry, I have chosen an interesting material for my nonconductive guy wires for my planned 140 feet rotating tower. It's Dynamix. Used in yachting. It's a combination of Dyneema SK75 and Aramid fibre
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-07/msg00843.html (10,539 bytes)
- 12. [Towertalk] Grounding an Elevated vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:48:27 +0200
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_00DA_01C1C8F2.A888E830 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As far as nobody really
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-03/msg00121.html (22,916 bytes)
- 13. [TowerTalk] W2DU Balun's? (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:16:29 +0200
- I have used W2DU - HF3 - 9KW baluns from ComtekSystems for my 2 el 10-15-20m QUAD for each band. Using ACOM 2000A at 1KW+ with up to 2:1 SWR with no problems and I am very happy with them. Have used
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-02/msg00156.html (18,666 bytes)
- 14. [TowerTalk] Dyneema for guy wires? (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:19:11 +0200
- I have decided not to take the risk of spoiling the pattern of my antennas on my planned tower with steel guy wires. Looking for non conductive materials for at least the upper 20m section of the guy
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-02/msg00548.html (9,340 bytes)
- 15. [TowerTalk] Half slopers using a tower (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:11:25 +0200
- it's quite pointless to give out "of the Year" awards on Jan 2nd anyway:)) They'll both be out from top 100 by the end for sure:) But if I was Yuri, I would think twice next time attacking Tom again.
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00137.html (14,220 bytes)
- 16. [TowerTalk] stacking distances (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:50:09 +0200
- Nice to see you coming up with that, Rick, That's exactly my observation that I described in my post a half a year ago: http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/200107/msg00540.html check out the threa
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00187.html (10,424 bytes)
- 17. [TowerTalk] stacking distances -- YT and TA (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:25:43 +0200
- TA anyway does more accurate job. I did the same with 4el 20m yagis. 50 and 100 is 16.2 dbi (about 2.4 dbi over single upper), 50 and 60 feet is basically the same as the upper (13.5 dbi) so no gain
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00195.html (12,607 bytes)
- 18. [TowerTalk] 80m 4SQ up - comments and questions (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno.Vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:19:06 +0200 (EET)
- I finished the installation of 80m 4SQ last week. I have full size aluminum verticals guyed with ropes and elevated about 3m from ground. Each vertical has one tuned elevated radial (in line with the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-10/msg00069.html (12,064 bytes)
- 19. [TowerTalk] 80m 4SQ up - comments and questions (score: 1)
- Author: Tonno.Vahk@mail.ee (Tonno Vahk)
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:21:21 +0200 (EET)
- I finished the installation of 80m 4SQ last week. I have full size aluminum verticals guyed with ropes and elevated about 3m from ground. Each vertical has one tuned elevated radial (in line with the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-10/msg00071.html (12,054 bytes)
- 20. [TowerTalk] The best stacking distance for long-boom yagis - 0.5 wavelength!! (score: 1)
- Author: Tõnno Vähk" <tonno.vahk@mail.ee (Tõnno Vähk)
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:05:49 +0300
- I have done a lot of modelling and also field testing and found out that it is possible or even favourable to stack long boom 10m and 15m yagis only 0.5 wl apart! I hope you can confirm or argue with
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-07/msg00552.html (13,666 bytes)
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