- 21. Re: [TowerTalk] Ooops! Wrong guy bracket assemblyinstalled--nowwhat?! (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:14:45 -0500
- Dick: You have apparently not put up a Rohn guy bracket in a while, because this is exactly how they have been supplied from the manufacturer for some time. My GB-45 that I purchased 8 or 9 years ago
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-08/msg00950.html (9,852 bytes)
- 22. Re: [TowerTalk] Best way to dig holes (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:26:33 -0500
- Dick: I have dug the base hole for my fixed towers with a tractor type backhoe and have also dug the base with a small excavator. Both worked very nicely. The problem with both is that it is very har
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-08/msg00951.html (9,885 bytes)
- 23. [TowerTalk] C31 (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:24:08 -0500
- Ron I posted a detailed email with my experience with the Force 12 C31-XR. I also wrote about my SWRs on all bands, and some problems with 15 meters that I did not have with my antenna. If you go to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-08/msg01200.html (6,933 bytes)
- 24. Re: [TowerTalk] Crankup tower raising (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:53:20 -0600
- I haven't seen a lot of responses so let me toss in my 2 cents worth. I own two US Towers MDX-589-MDPL, a LM470D, and HyGain HD-70, plus 120' and 100' sticks of Rohn 45. I would not be very excited a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-01/msg00236.html (15,191 bytes)
- 25. [TowerTalk] Hauling Tower (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:11:23 -0600
- Here is how I hauled a Tri-Ex LM-470 from Phoenix to Shreveport, and a HyGain HD70G crank up from Mississippi to Louisiana. I rented a U-Haul car-carrier. twin axle (conservatively rated for about 3,
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-01/msg00516.html (7,507 bytes)
- 26. [TowerTalk] FW: Please your opinion of C31XR (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:26:55 -0600
- Alpredo: I have a C31-XR and have had it at two different installations. In the first, it was on a 70' crank up which I kept at 55-60' most of the time. The location was on relatively flat terraine i
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-03/msg00147.html (10,690 bytes)
- 27. [TowerTalk] Winches and Wenches (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:28:04 -0500
- I had my fingers crossed that we would get through this discussion of tower winches before someone would make the typing or spelling mistake on winch and turn it into wench. But NO .. A winch is a de
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-03/msg00308.html (7,296 bytes)
- 28. [TowerTalk] Windloads and Rohn Towers (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:23:53 -0500
- The prime directive on this reflector is to do exactly what the manufacturer recommends however. Many guys on this reflector put way more on a Rohn tower than specs would suggest would work. Just loo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-04/msg00155.html (9,046 bytes)
- 29. [TowerTalk] Long Run rotor problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:22:45 -0500
- I have two towers placed roughly 450 feet from the shack and are roughly 100 feet tall making the total run to the rotors about 550. To avoid problems, I have used 14 gauge ROMEX runs to the tower, m
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-08/msg00002.html (7,983 bytes)
- 30. [TowerTalk] Bulk Hardline (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 11:47:31 -0500
- If I wanted to buy an entire reel of Times Fiber or Commscope half inch or ¾ inch CATV line, can I buy it from the manufacturer or would I have to buy it from a distributor/vendor? Also, I wil
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00288.html (6,868 bytes)
- 31. [TowerTalk] CATV Hardline Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:21:04 -0600
- I have managed to amass some surplus CATV 75 ohm half inch and three quarter inch unjacketed hardline and I am in need of small numbers of good hardline connectors. They dont appear to be available l
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-12/msg00082.html (7,008 bytes)
- 32. [TowerTalk] shorty 40 above tribander (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:43:25 -0600
- Gary: Quite a few guys on this reflector have used the situation that you describe and faced the same choices. I personally ran a two element 40 meter yagi (The Mosely S402) which was on a (maybe, my
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-02/msg00007.html (12,194 bytes)
- 33. [TowerTalk] W2GD (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:57:08 -0500
- Guys: I have been off touring France for the past couple of weeks and not getting towertalk while I was gone. I apparently missed a notice about a tower accident involving my old buddy John W2GD. Wou
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00529.html (7,369 bytes)
- 34. [TowerTalk] W2GD (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:24:52 -0500
- Thanks to David. I have read Dougs blog on W2GDs condition and progress and up to date on what happened. Thanks to the list. Gary W5FI No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00530.html (7,214 bytes)
- 35. [TowerTalk] Any ideals on heliax channel out to towers? (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:02:12 -0500 (CDT)
- I am going to run at least one, and maybe two runs of Andrew Heliax out to my two towers that are about 500' from the shack. I want to run the heliax and some other control lines out there by laying
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-06/msg00699.html (9,291 bytes)
- 36. [TowerTalk] Gin Poles (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:43:58 -0500
- The truth of the matter is that there is $200.00 worth of metal in the Rohn gin pole. However, if you do it right (in building it yourself), it is going to cost a lot more than that for the professio
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-10/msg00023.html (9,226 bytes)
- 37. [TowerTalk] Pay-Pal (one final time) (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:18:02 -0600
- I have read with interest the concerns with Pay-Pal and I wanted to add my 2 cents worth. Beyond the current and past stock market rip offs (where I, and many of you) have lost enough money for quite
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-02/msg00351.html (10,362 bytes)
- 38. Re: [TowerTalk] Guyed tower question (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:34:35 -0500
- Well, I assume we all do it differently. When I have generally put up my 70 (Rohn 25), 90 (Rohn 45 for all the rest), 100, and 120 foot towers, I have usually wanted to swing a monobander around the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-04/msg00320.html (11,457 bytes)
- 39. [TowerTalk] Hauling Towers (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 07:32:29 -0500
- I used a U-Haul car hauler (twin axle). Rents one way for about 40 bucks a day. My towers sat on the trailer a little angled, but sat there just fine. Tell them you are moving a car when you pick up
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-05/msg00270.html (6,662 bytes)
- 40. [TowerTalk] FW: raising platform question (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:49:20 -0500
- Toni: I have two US Tower HDX-589 MDPL motorized crank up towers (89' extended and 23 feet nested). I needed to put 20' heavy duty masts in each tower because I was going to put two yagis on each tow
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2009-06/msg00105.html (9,763 bytes)
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