. Well, yes and no. This illustrates a sidemount that is mounted on the face of the tower. It's okay for a fixed sidemounted yagi but I think Rich's question had to do with being able to rotate them.
Actually bad advice. Each Preformed grip is designed specifically for ONE cable and APPLICATION and they should not be used with the wrong cable. The number of strands varies (i.e. EHS is 5 strands;
cable. comes Yes - it is NOT EHS. There are many different configurations and grades for all sizes of cables. You can not mix and match cables and Preformed grips. Since it's not EHS, then using cabl
Shiny schminy - it's oxidation. You can clean off the oxidized layer with an abrasive pad but as soon as it's exposed to oxygen, it'll get a new oxidized layer on it. The only place where you do want
Why? This isn't remotely close to a TowerTalk topic. I'm as interested in this as you are but TowerTalk is NOT the venue for your questions. Feel free to start a reflector for this topic and then let
Okay - maybe I was a little harsh. I'm not trying to discourage any growth in the information we collect and share but the FIRST thing you should've done is to write me privately and ASK me if it wou
It won't? I can get them in and out of 25G thru the Z-bracing without too much trouble - use of some creative colloquialisms doesn't hurt though. It'll even rotate unimpeded. The TailTwister is anoth
Greetings, TowerTalkians -- This is off-topic but is something that will benefit anyone involved in tower/antenna systems. As some of you know, I have a company, Champion Radio Products ( <A HREF="ht
Externally the upper rotor tops are different - the neck that holds the mast clamp is much thinner on the older rotators. I think those skinny types are Ham M's. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TECH
Something I carry all the time and use once-in-a-while is good old JB Weld. The stuff is amazing and will bond just about anything. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TECH - Professional tower services for co
Go to the List Search menu window on the left of the www.contesting.com homepage. Type in <towertalk keyword> (in this case <towertalk sds>) and that'll get you what you need. If you don't type in th
What sort of info were you interested in? The construction is typical F12 - good mechanical design. Performance is reasonable since it's a 2L linear loaded antenna. The 2L 30 is a nifty little antenn
Greetings, TowerTalkians -- I just wanted to let you know that there are some on-going problems with TT and other contesting.com reflectors. There is a Mailman upgrade going on and some of the things
FYI. This is off the Force 12 reflector and I found it very interesting reading. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TECH Hi Bill, While I haven't played with the Sigma 5 specifically, I have installed a few h
Sure. The TH6DX and TH7DX are the largest selling high performance tribanders of all time because they flat played! Professionally designed, they were the Tribander Gold Standard for years. We tested
No - it's a normal nondelivery situation. Anyone who posts something on TT sends that email to almost 1300 people and for a myriad of reasons, sometimes a message can't be delivered. The Mailman soft
First, the K-Factor (and Hy-Gain's Effective Moment) are both ESTIMATES of rotator capacity. radius. You lost me. The turning radius is a distance measurement so at what point on the turning radius w