As long as we are on the topic, which would be better? 1) secure the 4 inch conduit sections together in the trench and then fill in the trench with dirt on top so the sections could not move when pu
Chas I see you are using the Ham Radio Operator's official motto in your posting: "And all of this as cheap as possible." For my towers, I will be using metal Hoffman-type enclosures with rubber seal
I have a 16 foot long, 2" OD steel mast about 2 feet out of the top of a Rohn 45 flat top section waiting antennas. I plan to put my 2-element 40 meter Hygain yagi at the top. Then, I have to lift th
I took a steel 24 foot, 2" OD mast to a local galvanizer to do it to make it rust resistant and pretty as I would use the mast in one of my future towers. They said they had to put two small holes in
2 questions: 1) How do you clean the camera lens? 2) How do you prevent yellow jackets, etc. from building a nest on it? Steve Sala K7AWB DN17es Nine Mile Falls, WA 468 ARRL approved 6-meter grids co
This April, I will install my conduit and pull the cables to the existing towers. From the shack wall, its about 100 feet to Tower #1 and an additional 130 feet to Tower #2. I live on 20 acres. The c
I have two towers up. A 90 foot Rohn 45 with a 6-el 20 meter beam on it and a 102 foot Rohn 25 without anything on it yet. Both are guyed. In putting them up, a group of us used a Loos tension meter
Thanks to everyone for the advice in confirming a tower is straight up vertically. I think I will buy a transit, but need advice in which one some of you have bought and used for this event, if any.
I have a choice of two 6-meter yagis to put up at the 112 foot level on my tower. A Force 12 5BA ( 5 band, 15 element HF) goes at the tower top at 103 feet and above it about 9 feet will be the 6-met
Hi Jim W7RY, long time no see I will be putting up a M2 6M7 (6-meter, 7-element) about 8-9 feet above my Force 12 5BA 5-bander soon. There is a great list of ALL the 6 meter antennas by VE7BQH and it
My Force 12 Mag 620, a 6-element 20-meter beam, quit working recently. I don't know if it was due to some lightning storms or not, but when I reconnected the coax back to the transceiver after the st
I search the archives ,but could not tell if anyone has put this rotator into a Rohn 25 tower with a flat top section on top and did not have to cut out any side braces? I was going to use a older, b
I have 135 feet between my two towers and might put two dipoles or double bazookas between them, end to end using one rope. I would drop the feed lines straight down to the ground. Probably one would
I have a new Yaesu rotator model G-2800DXA which I will put in my Rohn 25 tower in a month or two. The rotator comes with a pin to put through the mast (by drilling out a hole through the mast). I kn
I have an aluminum mast (which is 2 OD and 0.25 wall and about 11 feet) out of the flat top of the Rohn 25. Already I have a M2 17-element 2-meter yagi at the top of the mast. Below that antenna, and
I have rohn 25 and 45 pointy tops which are threaded at the point. What is that threading for? Steve k7awb Dn17 Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ ___________________
Just google it: F female adapter to uhf male I found several sources that way Steve k7awb Nine mile falls wa _______________________________________________ __________________________________________
Here is some tower I bought a while back; seems to be Rohn type, but it has flat feet that bolt each section together with another section. The sections are 10 feet long and vary in width as it goes
Well gosh I forgot the pictures of the tower to be identified. Here is a link to a picture of them. http://www.sdxa.org/?p=8155 Steve K7AWB _______________________________________________ ___________
My rotator is 102 feet high in a rohn 25 tower with the yaesu-supplied control cable attached. Although the cable supplied with the rotator is 130 feet (40 meters) long with the two connectors attach