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1. [TowerTalk] XM-240 Failure (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:28:38 -0500
Some of you may know I recently moved to a new QTH in New Durham, NH where I have installed a 70 ft. Rohn tower. On the tower is my old 4 el SteppIR and a new XM-240. The XM-240 is up at about 85 ft.
/archives//html/Towertalk/2012-12/msg00092.html (9,277 bytes)

2. Re: [TowerTalk] re beam antenna truss (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:48:44 -0500
Also, if you choose to use eye bolts to attached the truss to the boom be sure to use only forged, shoulder eye bolts as regular eye bolts are not designed to take a load at an angle. 73 es Merry Chr
/archives//html/Towertalk/2012-12/msg00136.html (10,530 bytes)

3. Re: [TowerTalk] Earthing a tower (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:19:50 -0500
Yes. Here is a good source of info. http://www.protectiongroup.com/ProtectionTechnolog yGroup/media/PTG/WhitePapersandTechnicalNotes/1485 -013.pdf?ext=.pdf 73, Dale AA1QD --Original Message-- From: T
/archives//html/Towertalk/2012-12/msg00141.html (7,503 bytes)

4. Re: [TowerTalk] Subject: XM-240 Question (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:19:52 -0400
I just put up a new XM-240 this past Oct and I made a new mast to boom plate and drilled it for 4 2? U bolts. I used the U bolts with the cast aluminum saddles from DX Eng. The existing plate had 2 2
/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-03/msg00173.html (8,484 bytes)

5. Re: [TowerTalk] Discoverer 7-2 or Cushcraft xm-240 (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:22:00 -0400
Glenn, I put up an XM-240 here in NH just over a year ago. Before I did I checked with the local contest club guys to see what things I might be careful about. Here?s what I did ? Replaced the boom t
/archives//html/Towertalk/2014-03/msg00077.html (10,419 bytes)

6. Re: [TowerTalk] Ground Rod Myths? (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:00:19 -0400
Here at my station in New DurHAM, New HAMpshire on Middleton Rd (off of HAM Road) I have very rocky soil. I tried the garden hose trick and found it was not a good method in this soil although it wor
/archives//html/Towertalk/2014-04/msg00515.html (16,468 bytes)

7. [TowerTalk] XM240 element length question (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 16:40:34 -0400
Here's the SWR curve for my XM-240 Jorge. It may not answer your question exactly but you can see my results. The antenna actually ended up resonant a bit higher in freq than I tried to set it for. A
/archives//html/Towertalk/2014-05/msg00082.html (7,802 bytes)

8. Re: [TowerTalk] : Yaesu G-800sdx rotor pinout (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:22:14 -0400
My G-800SDX manual shows a 7 pin connector on the rotor. Yaesu actually glued a picture of the 7 pin connector over the picture of a 6 pin connector that the manual was actually printed with. I suspe
/archives//html/Towertalk/2014-05/msg00424.html (8,538 bytes)

9. Re: [TowerTalk] Recommendations for Purchasing a short 2 Element 40 Meter (score: 1)
Author: "Dale Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:36:16 -0400
I had a recent bad experience with the Cushcraft XM-240. The present manufacturer had changed the U channel design from the original when it was made by the NH company. The original design ( accordin
/archives//html/Towertalk/2014-08/msg00012.html (8,615 bytes)

10. [TowerTalk] Loosening Rusted Hardware (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:00:47 -0400
I also vote for PB Blaster. It works FB for Rohn tower sections that are stuck together. I spray it in the bolt holes and wait about 10 minutes. Dale AA1QD ___________________________________________
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00183.html (6,736 bytes)

11. [TowerTalk] G-2800DXA Resistance readings (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:30:51 -0400
Stew, My G-2800DXA has the newer Molex style plug but the resistance readings are as follows - Pins 1, 2 and 3 go to the 500 ohm position pot with pin 2 being the wiper. Also pin 3 is grounded at the
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00187.html (7,751 bytes)

12. Re: [TowerTalk] I think it might be worth investing in a guy wire tension gauge (score: 1)
Author: "D. Drake" <daleaa1qd@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:57:04 -0500
I am a retired engineer (a nuclear engineer to be specific, sort of a mechanical engineer with more calculus and physics classes). My engineering common sense told me that cable stiffness that differ
/archives//html/Towertalk/2016-01/msg00455.html (10,393 bytes)


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