For one man's research, go here http://www.w8ji.com/traps.htm 73 Dave W8FGX _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
<biggrin> How much better and why? 73 Dave W8FGX SNIP _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com h
Since it's a foldover, take measurements in both positions and adjust accordingly. 73 Dave W8FGX SNIP _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ T
Pictures taken by K1GQ of the ice storm disaster that occured at KC1XX on Thursday/Friday. http://gallery.me.com/wlmyers _______________________________________________ ______________________________
If you want to send me the pieces, I'll try to match them with something in the pile of Mosley trap stuff in the garage. 73 Dave W8FGX SNIP _______________________________________________ ___________
I had to put an ICE 402X on all FT-1000D's here to keep a messy soup of 50kW-at-700KHz-and-everything-else out. It was especially irritating on 40M, during daylight hours. 73 Dave W8FGX SNIP ________
Fwiw, I occasionally get tool stuff from Horrible Fright so I'm not out so much when it grows legs and walks away: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=42684 73 Dave W8FGX
Shudda writ it this way earlier: It's one of my candy-stores. Have had only good experience at Horrible Fright and with stuff I bought there. Will buy again and again as needed, cuz there's a local H
Stand the rotator up off the shelf with a stack of, say, 5/16" or 3/8" nuts, or 1/4" washers. 73 Dave W8FGX _______________________________________________ ___________________________________________
Go to Horrible Fright (sic) and look for either the biggest chop saw you can find, or some sort of radial arm saw. Btdt. 73 Dave W8FGX _______________________________________________ ________________
Searched unsuccessfully for a post within the last 2 years (I think) regarding 5 specially-built 100-foot-plus crank-ups with large wind-load capacity fully-extended. Any help out there, please? Tia
Tks, Dan, and to all others who replied. This below is what I sorta remembered the other day, and didn't find while searching. 'Preciate it. 73 Dave W8FGX ____________________________________________
Tks, Clay, and others. I have a hundred feet of tower now, which is getting tougher to climb, and if only medic** would see it as a prescription-entitlement-bailout . . . . . ;o) But, are there other
The basement walls of the house in which I live were bowed in. The fix, which works fine, btw, is 11 1-in OD steel rods, thru the north and south walls, horizontally out into the yard 8-9 feet, about
John and uncounted others, Get the free evaluation version of EZNEC, study how to model a bit, take the ARRL antenna course, have a go with HFTA, and see for yourself. Move to an unrestricted area, p
randl.com has 'em: 3 or 4" dia.rings with holes and slots on the perimeter. I'm up the tower today or real soon now to hang experimental 60M and 30M half-wave wires on an existing balun-fed 80M half-
Hula hoops? Did you mean something else? Iirc, they're 3'-4' in diameter. These randl.com things are 3"-4" dia. and $0.35@, btw. 73 Dave W8FGX _______________________________________________ ________
Now I see ;o) Btw, randl.com calls these things " JTCAGE ", $0.35@. Usual diclaimers. 73 Dave W8FGX _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tow
R.I.P. Sri to read that. Guess that monument will be disassembled now. Speaking of things like that, I didn't hear W1EVT this season. Did anyone else? I liked that forest of wires on ROHN25 sticks th
Fwiw, on 80M I have a version of the K1WA: 4 equal-length coax lines, run from a select-one-ground-the-rest coax switch next to the rig, out underground to 4 sloppers (sic) NE-SE-SW-NW with (R&L-bran