I have purchased 4 ICE devices for my new tower installation. I was under the impression that they should be mounted just before the shack on a bulkhead close to the ground rod. The purpose, I though
Good Morning, I spent my morning troubleshooting the problem I am about to describe out in the rain. It has been dogging me for two days I have a new tower installation. On the tower I have a 2 el 40
Skip, It has a separate control cable. Five conductors and ground. It is also the 5 antenna switch they make. Pat, Sorry, I see it's am Aneritron. Is it the one where voltage is fed through the coax
Hi Doug, Yes, the switch grounds the driven element of the XM240. I tried posting an up date, but got an automatic message back that says I am not a list member and must wait for the moderator. Don't
Bill, This is really good input. Thank you. I remember when I had the lid off that there was a quarter size scorch mark on the inside of the lid and I remember wondering how that happened. I will be
Well folks, it pains me to admit it, but my problem is apparently a poorly soldered Pl259. The more I have troubleshot the problem the easier it has become to recreate. It is now at the point where I
I have just replaced my Rohn HBDX 40 tower. I would like to give the HBDX 40 to a ham who needs a tower. I would like to give it to someone who does not own a tower preferably someone young who might
Author: "William P. Chiles" <chilesp@adelphia.net>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:52:59 -0400
Alan, I put in a 5 ft x 5ft x 8ft foundation last November. My first quote for digging the hole was $700. I didn't want to dig it myself because it is in hard clay. I eventually found a neighbor who
I am in the initial stages of planning the shunt feeding of my tower. How important is the attachment point/points for the radials. Does it matter if they all radiate from one or two attachment point
Tony, I posed this question on Towertalk last fall when installing my HDX555. If you look in the archives you will find responses dated 9/30/2004 and 11/13/2004. There are 8-10 responses. That being
Okay, someone needs to ask the hard questions. Are these mice the product of intelligent design or the product of evolution. Mirko, as for the adder it would never work in the US. Someone would run h
I have a brand new HDX555 installed Nov. 2004. I do very little hamming during the summer months because of a fire that burnt one end of the house from a lightening strike to an antenna. A small conc
Had a long talk with Jodi in tech support at US Towers. He said that is how they did it for a brief period before seeing the error of their ways. He said that my tower should have been done the corre
Has anyone adapted the DX Engineering balun to the TH7 feed system. I will be doing that tomorrow. The stock balun (BN86?) has it's terminals on the side and the stiff aluminum feed "arcs" are tailor
Pete, You have gone and done it now. You made an intelligent observation, put it out there for others to comtemplate, and have gone and made yourself a targer. I knew as soon as 3-4 people butted int
I just went through the same thing last November. The tow truck was going to be my solution until a neighbor who lives a 1/2 mile down the road offered his front loader. I insisted in my delivery ins
I am planning on implementing a stepper motor remote tuning feature into my shunt fed tower. Richard, KJ7CU, supplied me with lots of good information including where he got his motors and controller
Dan, The best answer I can give you is I am looking for something "precise" if it is cost effective. I am currently turning a gamma vacuum variable with a cheap 8 RPM gearhead 12V DC motor from AllEl
Thanks to everyone for all of the information on where to go for stepper motors "geared" to the budget minded. Three of the sights suggested look real good for motors at $12 and under. I think I saw
I have a shunt fed tower that I landscaped around in late summer. Before laying down the landscape cloth and decorative stone, I first ran a solid # 6 copper wire around the perimeter of the tower pa