Guys, Apparently the nut mounted SO-239's being used in the Autek Wattmeter sense unit have problems. The center conducter receptical relaxes and becomes too large for the PL-239 mating pin. I had a
Guys, Anybody out there figure out a way to use an el-cheapo LASER pointer to plumb a tower? It seems that one could certainly use it and a pair of binoculars to verify something hasn't got out of pl
Guys, I was looking at XYL's gardening supply catelog. I came across 7/8" x 8' foot long bamboo stakes priced at $39.28 per bundle of 50. These would make great supports for semi-permanent beverage a
Guys, "Antennas are 90% mental and 10% metal" (Apologies to T. Edison for parahrasing him) Having more db than the other guy is really all that counts. Look at the 160M antennas being using. Most guy
Guys, Looking for a light duty boomless quad spider for 12m quad. Mor-gain of Ga doesn't have anymore GEM Quad shipping from VE expensive. Anybody have another source or one in junkbox? Tnx de Brian/
Guys, I saw a product called ALUMALOY advertised on TV. It is a "welding product" for aluminium which melts at 728 degrees F and uses no flux. According to the ad it can be drilled and tapped and is
Summary of responses to this:, Several people have uses similar stuff. Seems to work in their experience. It's really called brazing since the melting point of aluminium is not reached. 73 de Brian/K
Guys, The "pulley replacement" issue lead me to the following general questions: Can imprudent (imprudent = different from manufacturer recommendations or ?) or frequent periodic maintenance actully
Guys, Here's a question for you. My Glenn Martin 70' tower has a cable to raise the Hazer. It attaches to the top of the Hazer goes up through a pully at the top of the tower and then back to the bot
You can try this for the relays. One of the world's best kept secrets is that AC relays can work very well on DC. I routinely run junkbox 110v AC relays on about 12-14v DC. It could make your life a
Guys, I'm curious about the RF safety calculator assumptions. The area of interest in in the "near field" My understanding is that calculating near field field strengths is a big task. The antenna pa
Guys, Does anybody make a rotatable 40 and 30 meter dipole combination? It seems that these two would be a natural to combine. I'd sure like to replace my 40 meter rotatable dipole with such a beast
Dennis, Just a hint if you're going over to LMR type coax or any of those which have silver braid. If you have typical older age sight problems (like me) use gold plated connectors. It was impossibl
Guys, I've ordered some LMR400D direct bury coax. My understanding is that his stuff has a flooding compound that oozes out when the cable is cut. How does one install UHF connectors amid all the mes
Guys, If you want to know what your S-meter really reads build the attenuator in the ARRL handbook and inject a fixed signal. I did this when my quad was showing much too much F/B and gain. This tabl
What ethical issues? If tower riggers and the design engineers in this case should be held under the "ethical microscope" then perhaps consider the examining the following: 1) Airline pilots 2) Ship
Gosh, Re:KT34XA maintenance I thought only quads required this amount of maintenance. Why would anybody knowingly buy such headaches? At least with a quad, when its broken, its obvious and fixes are
Guys, Watching the Hong Kong construction workers building and working off of bamboo scaffolding 800' in the air made me wonder. Anybody out there have a bamboo tower? I can imagine one build like a
have had an ongoing discussion with a fellow ham. As we have been The heck with consensus. Somebody out there have a Time Domain Reflectometer and can actually look the effect? Of course the effect w
Guys, You people wishing to split a gnat's eyelash with beam/rotor alignment ought to also consider the following: 1) Where is your beam pattern really with respect to the physicial antenna? I've see