Ladies and Gents, After looking deeper into the Internet for information on UNUNS, I found this site which is good reading. http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/ept/trans.pdf I could not find much
I have not actually installed a beverage, but I've seen a pretty good installation that I felt was great. W0NO uses steel T-posts that you can get at any farm/tractor supply store. Using the manual m
Hi Everyone....Happy New Year.... I need to know where I can either purchase an UNUN or an article on how to make an UNUN and where to get the cores. I have seen ByteMark but I wonder if there is a w
Hello Ladies and Gents.... I have been researching tuners to determine which one to obtain. I have been getting mixed feelings about ... well ... just about all of them. So, I an asking for opinions
Ladies and Gents, Has anyone done any "home" electroplating? Silver to copper or tin to copper? If so, do you want to share your experience? Lee Buller - K0WA ________________________________________
What gets me about the picture is that they are looking down the pipe of a very large antenna either for FM or Television. I sure hope the Transmitter was off...which I am sure it was. That could hav
Does anyone have some coil stock in their junk box they would like to get rid of? I would like to get some 2" to 3" diameter air coil stock...#16, #14, or I know I can get it new...but I am cheap Lee
Bernard, I haved done this on a TH6DXX just four years ago. Lets just say the BN86 will fail when using full output of an amplifier for long periods of time. I have seen one burned up in my life. Wha
I would like to converse with some Antennadyne Log Period Users. Lee Buller K0WA _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless
Roger, I am doing the same thing here, but I doubt my gains in the stock market are going to help me. I have a TH6DXX at 60 feet and I too am looking for a change. Why? The TH6DXX is a good antenna.
Elevated guys are wonderfull for mowing the back yard. But, in my experience I would not do it again, or I would do it differently. I have 8" round pipes, three and a half feet in the ground and six
I am not an expert in these matters, but I can give you my experience this past fall. I have an Inverted-L going up the tower 60 feet and then over to a tree at around 132 feet. I used a grid-dip met
Good idea. I have also used Bobby Pins that you find at Wal-Mart or Dollar General. I got a 100 for a buck. Lee - K0WA _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com f
Driving groudrods..... Depends on the soil, but here in Kansas it is pretty easy without using a hammer, sledge, or any vibrating hammer. Try this to get the ground rod in.... I used 8' ground rods f
Looks like people in Central Florida have a problem....and not by hams http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-518jamming,0,6144770,print.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines How do you sol
Wow, What a great question and what a great bunch of answers. I too have used the TA-33 and have used the recommended choke balun, a 1:1 balun with a toroidal core, and feeding the thing directly. Fr
Ladies and Gents, I am just about to pull the trigger and buy a SteppIr 3-element beam. I have read just about everything there is about this antenna, but I would like some direct feedback from users
I want to thank everyone who sent me their feelings about the Steppir. I will try tomorrow to put some of the comments together on my web site. Then I will post. Looks like I am going to pull the tri
I have made a quick web page of comments received about the SteppIR 3-element beam. You can find it at http://home.swbell.net/k0wa/steppir.htm This is only a start and I will try to add more during t
I stumbled on a page from a W5 guy who had pictures of a tram system he used to lift antennas to the tower. I cannot find the darm thing. IT was unique to me becaused he used two cables/ropes from th