Suggest you go with a dipole of whatever length you can put up fed with ladder line and use a good tuner with balun on all bands (if you can find a Z-match with air coil coupling, that's the best, ne
While its nice to say the solution to a small lot is to move, there are other considerations!! Like the time to operate wouldn't be there if you were stuck in traffic commuting... I live in centre of
I re-installed my C3S on a 10' guyed mast with tripod base on the roof of my row house after re-roofing. The mast also has fixed 440 and 2 m beams. A trapped dipole for 30/40/80 is slung over the roo
The C3S, roof mounted, has to come down for re-roofing. In TT postings last summer and fall, several new C3S owners discussed difficulties in lowering the resonance frequency to cover the cw end of t
Looking for advice on suitable enclosures for bead baluns. Have both a 1:1 (50 beads on one coax length) and a 4:1 (two lengths of 50 beads each) ready to put into service - one on a C3S and the othe
Hope this helps somebody. I've been having problems with my TR-44 rotator meter readings. As the beam rotated, the readings would either advance in a jerky fashion or the needle would bounce to the e
Responses were about evenly divided between using PVC pipe and heat shrink tubing. N8UG (The Wireman) sent pictures of his assembled baluns using PVC (I bought these from him as kits). N0SS sent deta
After twenty years (and 298 countries), I decided to upgrade my roof mounted TA33jr. The C3S met my requirements ? claimed broadband coverage for 10, 15, and 20 meter bands plus 12m and 17m via a tun
Jan - Check the pictures at www.rotordoc.com/sales.html. I suspect it's a CD44 which is good for 7.5 ft. windload subject to the usual caveats. See also specs at www.tiac.net/users/shiacawn/rotors/n_
Try www.airwaves.com site - they have full US database of BCB stations. 73, George VE3YV / K8HI -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Admini