Vy 73, de Joe AA4NN Eastern Top Band ARC, Carolina DX Assn, Carolina CW Ops, Fairfield County Contesters, Ten-Tec only, CW only. eeetet ee -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html S
Little choice but to put the 89' US Tower crankup six feet from the house on this small lot on a point into Lake Wylie. Have had several hits with no damage. My neighbor happend to see two of those h
Say, Kurt, is there someway you could maybe condense your response, make it a little more understandable to the masses out here? Maybe get right to the point, as it were? de Joe AA4NN Hi Saad, For yo
Re: Chicken wire..... Snip Maybe I am the crazy one here, but I roll out the chicken wire for the contest season and roll it back up come spring. I don't worry about longevity as the ground screen is
Hi Kurt, de Joe Yes, that was much better and makes sense after reading your original post a coupla times regarding wind loading on a tower. So, if the tower man says his tower can handle 20 sq ft of
My good friend, Gary, K4MQG, wanted to experiment with hot dip galvanizing a section of Rohn HDBX. What a surprise to find the aluminum rivets had melted, leaving assorted parts in the vat. Vy 73, de
Sounds like a section of what is installed across an Interstate highway to hold those large green signs. 73, de Joe AA4NN On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 04:39:26 -0700 John T Miguel <w6qwa@pacbell.net> writes:
The virtue in a bowline is it's easy to tie, it won't slip and can be easily untied even if wet and having been stressed. It is used to tie a rope around an object. The figure eight is used to secure
OK, so what does one use to try to get an antenna toward resonance? MFJ analyzers, along with the rest, are a good tool to have in the shack. Gets you to a starting point, anyway. Put the full power
Hi Paul, Hold the rope by index finger and thumb of your left hand with about a foot of rope sticking out. Take the end of the rope with your right hand and make a loop by pulling it to your left and
Hi Kirk, A very impressive web site even tho you say it is crude. Excellent photos. Just excelent. Now you must tell the group why you chose air variables over vacuum variables ??? Parts on hand ? Ai
Damn, Steve, You're also plugged into tieing knots. What excellent sites you have offered. 73, de Joe, AA4NN -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesti
Now that's what I'd call a well planned operation. Major feast before a major contest. 73, de Joe AA4NN snip sic we -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@c
Fabricate a base plate that can be pegged to the ground,onto which, weld hinges and a plate with short legs to accept a tower section. Carolina CW Ops did this for Field Day, putting up three towers,
On leg of my 160 dipole slopes off a 90ft tower at about a 30 degree angle. Three different types of end insulators completely burned up after a while. A small rectangular piece of lexan is hanging i
C'mon, fellers, there's no way you can believe the striking story of the lightning on the bras. Get real. This is a farce. de Joe, AA4NN -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Sub
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:47:32 -0600 Joe Carvalho <joe.carvalho@wcom.com> writes: Well, now, if you are talking about towers, blast a hole. If you are talking about ground screen put out some chicken w
Hi Chuck, de Joe AA4NN Just make sure your thrust bearing is in there correctly at 90 degrees to the mast as you tighten the set screws to hold the weight of the mast and antenna. A warped thrust bea
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:53:37 -0500 "Phil Clements" <philk5pc@tyler.net> writes: snip Okay, so I have the 89 ft crank up US Tower and some of the guys around here say I should shunt feed it for 160. Q
Same type of thing happened to my GS1000SDX. In my case what had happened is the thrust bearing somehow got cocked up in its cradle and that put the mast in a bind as the antenna rotated from 320 to