I'm also in western WA and have seen lots of used and rusty tower for sale around these parts. I found my TX-472 listed in the QRZ.com forum. The seller was located in Porterville, CA where rainfall
Hi Bob, 6000 miles must be wrong -- did you mean km? I'm 3728 miles from KP. If you're near 38N/122W like qrz.com shows, you're closer (3600 statute miles) to KP (18N/66W). 3600 mi = 5800 km. vy 73,
Sanity check... you're pulling a 60' tall tower up alongside a 50' tall building. I suggest you install one tower section on top of the building and sell the other five sections and all the brackets
Hi Mike, LPS makes "Cold Galvanize" paint for that purpose: http://www.lpslabs.com/product_pg/corrosion_pg/ColdGalvanize.html vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:40:56 -0400 From: Mike
Hi John, I'm just going to use the 83-1F (2" long) bulkhead fittings, mounted to a piece of angle stock inside a weatherproof housing. The angle stock makes grounding easy. DX Engineering was my
FWIW, on the bottom end of each of the anchor rods from US Tower for my TX-472, there is a 2"x2"x5/8" plate welded to a nut. The nut is threaded onto and welded to the rod. See the last photo in this
LEDs are great for giving your rotator controller's meter that ugly "spotlight" effect. OTOH, limiting the inrush current will greatly increase an incandescent lamp's life. Inrush current is typicall
Folks, Today, I took another step toward installation of my TX-472 + C-4XL. The county building inspector gave the thumbs-up to my foundation work. I hope to pour concrete next week. I hope to be cau
For RG8-size cable, I've been VERY happy with the UHF male fittings from DX Engineering (pn DXE-PL259). They're not Amphenol but are still VERY nice. For RG-58 cable, I use only Amphenol #83-58FCP. v
Hi Bob, The DXE part is silver-plated w/ Teflon insulation. The Amphenol part you mentioned (83-1SP-15RFX is nickel-plated with mica-filled phenolic insulation. I'll stick with the DXE part. I'm far
I first met Bob when we were young and impressionable Novices. We're not so young Novices now... ;-) vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC _______________________________________________ _____________________________
That SHOULD go without saying! vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC http://www.tinyurl.com/wa7prc-tower _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk maili
Hi Folks, Over the past several months, I've been working on getting my first tower + BIG yagi up and today was "payday". K7LXC's TT reflector was very helpful. Thanks Steve! The tower is a US Tower
Nope. I was trying to thank Steve and others who POST to the reflector for the information that helped me. vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC _______________________________________________ ________________________
Hi Steve, Everett Steel (http://www.everettsteel.com/) has/had some aluminum tubing in stock... and they are (or were) open half days on Saturdays. I bought 12' pieces to build a half Lambda vertical
Hi Tower Talkians, Does anyone have any knowledge of the efficacy of the "Chain & Cable Lube" (pn MAC1370) offered by NAPA? The MSDS (https://partimages.genpt.com/partimages/716635.pdf) says it conta
Thanks, Mike. I have some antenna work planned for this weekend and would like to lube my crankup tower's cables while I'm at it. vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC _______________________________________________ _
Thank you, Guy. I want to be careful, and can find no information about the makeup of Prelube 6. As it stands, just moments ago, it appears I now have bigger issues that prevent lowering my tower (an
Thank You Jon, However, I've already seen that "MSDS" and it doesn't say much. It DOES say Prelube 6 contains one of the ingredients that appears to be common to other lubes. That the US Navy approve
Hi Jon, I needed the lube Saturday morning. "Previous Day" shipping has yet to be perfected. ;-) A come-along would not've helped. The problem is with my Milwaukee Super Hawg. I broke a lefthand thre