I'm going to drop my tower this coming weekend. One of the things I plan on doing is replacing my 44' rotatable dipole with a 66' one. I looking for suggestions on what feedline to use. I'm now using
I'm going to drop my tower this coming weekend. One of the things I plan on doing is replacing my 44' rotatable dipole with a 66' one. I wasn't happy with the performance of the 44 footer. I looking
We recently had some heavy winds here on the east coast. A consequence of this is that my antennas twisted around on the mast some. I realigned to true north, taking into account that my antenna feed
I'm building a new home that will have a full basement. I'm going to move my shack into the basement and I'm looking for any ideas on how to bring in all my antenna cable's. I have about 12 antennas
First off I want to thank everyone for all the good information. I think this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to mount an entrance box about three feet from my house. I will set into place 2 4 inc
The HF stations at the FAA ARTCC's were for emergency communications during the cold war. They used to have a net once a month(I think) this was before my time, I started to travel to centers in the
One more thing. Not all FAA centers have the big HF LP. One I can think that doesn't have one is ZJX Jacksonville, FL. Nashua center is right at exit 4 on Route 3... 73 Jeff kb2m Must be me as I've y
I'm getting ready to connect to the SPG located at the power entrance of my new house I'm building on my existing property. At this location I have the electric, cable, and phone. I tried to locate t
Ok. I have lots of info available about grounding to follow but as I didn't get the SPG to start with I'm thinking of doing the following... this right the first time, what about doing a >complete gr
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I used to use a slingshot to shoot a sinker on a piece of fishing line, over the limb. But now I just cast the sinker over the limb of interest with a short fishing pole. The sinker will return to gr
I spray paint my sinkers dayglo orange or red. I happen to have a couple of cans laying around from my son's Estes rocket days. Great colors to help find rockets(or sinkers) in the woods :-) 73 Jeff
Sorry for the short message. Here is the complete version. In NJ there was a tower company(Morrison tower) that used to use something also called a tower jack. I was on good terms with them, so I was
He lives in CT, near a large town, being CT I don't think shooting it down is an option. When I had some acreage to put wire antennas up I would put a pulley up with a rope. I would then lower it to