http://www.championradio.com/ Its inexpensive and easy! If you must find it locally, contact the manufacturer and find a dealer. http://www.purelube.com/products/wire_rope_lubricants/prelube6.htm Din
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1956 or 57?! I wasn't even born until 1966! ;-) Dino - K6RIX dino@k6rix.com _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
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It is my educated OPINION that you should have rebar within 6" of the circumference of the concrete pier. The purpose of the rebar is to hold the concrete block together and should NOT be tied to the
The strength comes from the rebar itself. The ONLY reason it is wired together is to hold everything in place once the concrete goes in. The wire by NO MEANS provides any other support...its only tie
Looking for suggestions/opinions... I have a LDG AT-100PRO hooked up to 25' of RG-8X, into an LDG 4:1 balun feeding a 51'/leg dipole fed by 450 ohm ladder line. The purpose of this setup was to get t
I was driving past N6MJ's casa today and admiring the good ol' KLM 3ele 40-meter beam. I understand that the linear loading makes the antenna elements electrically resonant while being physically sho
This is a foolish idea and the tower is not rated to do this. You will probably bend the top two tower sections and destroy the base. Make sure you have someone taking video if you decide to go forwa
I just installed an older MA-40 tower. As I was cranking it up (w/o antenna) I thought to myself, "this sure is taking longer than normal to hit the stops." Just then I looked up and saw the top 3" s
If you can remove the cables, and being that you are not already familiar with cable crimping, and the fact that one small mistake could cause your tower to fail, I'd take the cables off and have the
For those in Southern CA, there is a large yard sale this Saturday at Skip Bolnick's QTH... More info here... http://www.k6rix.com/ Scroll down to the YARD SALE posting. Dino - K6RIX dino@k6rix.com _
I was having a discussion with a friend of mine about 160 meters and how cool it would be to be able to load up an abandoned broadcast tower or array. I know as Amateurs we are restricted to 200' and
AA6PW and I just evaluated these two antennas and the element stepping is different. He has an original 40-2CD and we wanted to convert it to the W6NL Moxon based on the XM-240... http://www.kkn.net/
As I pointed out earlier, the element stepping for the CD is different than the element stepping for the XM. AA6PW and I were investigating this last month and had both sets of manuals in front of us
A thrust bearing provides two functions... 1. Vertical load support (not really the right bearing for this application for most thrust bearings). 2. Lateral support (exactly what most thrust bearings
I can't find it Tim. I only found the Dayton 2007 link. Dino - K6RIX dino@k6rix.com _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing l
AA6PW and I just replaced his K1550 with a K2550 this week on his TX455, when the K1550 failed causing the tower to collapse suddenly. The K2550 is a little larger and the holes will line up just bar
Ohhhh... I really LIKE this idea!!! At the 2006 DX Convention in Visalia, a speaker talked about phased vertical he put up for 40 meters. THEY WORKED GREAT! I wish I remembered who gave that talk. H
The HDX-572 uses the bottom 4 sections of the 89' tower. So yes, the base section is the next size bigger than the TX-472. I just swapped out one for the other in Anaheim, but I don't know the actual