A company called ....IIX Equipment, has a complete line of swing out/tower attaching braces-brackets...See there goods at .."Texas Towers" ..... -Bill _______________________________________________
*Last year I re-installed my LM470 .. and changed the motor in the process...What I used was: Leeson M6C34FB1C Run a "Google" and get the full specs.. Cost below $300.00 See glimpses at http://www.kc
Good point ... I recently sold a used Hy-gain TH-11 ... I used a multitude of colored markers (marked each section with a different color and slash mark at the joints labeled the elements A-B-C-.etc,
Had a TH11 at 120 feet and on 20 meters it pretty well played with a 4 ele - 44 foot W2PV at 100 feet...... I then brought it down to 100 feet and it played well on all bands..I ended up replacing it
Here you go .... http://www.buyheatshrink.com/heatshrinktubing/index.htm Been using this stuff for over 10- years and have had ZERO failure....I use the "UV/adhesive Type" ..and seal the ends with "L
The 18HT is a very good antenna ..over the years I've had then in a single/dual and triple combination.....The key to the performance are the grounding system and the radials....Take GREAT care in th
Came off of a central point of the ground system then ran 3" copper ribbon (From Georgia Copper) to a cross bar on the tower base then used two copper palates to sandwich the assembly ...a picture is
AQ little Foresight is always very good.. Consider making a video inventory of all internal and external equipment, complete with narration. Then you can pull frames into stills as a before/after pre
Never trusted the Rohn "push'm-up-poles"..... last two I built, I found a metal fabricator shop who built a 60 footer out of square tubing ..four (3" and down) pieces slide down inside each other wit
Been Their Done That ..First set rusted out in a year... Second set I spray galvanized with "Rust-Oleum's "Cold Galvanizing Compound". then Drilled three ..1/2 inches holes in the bottom for drainage
Always something new when Lubing tower cables ... my initial offering at http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm Has been modified ..... I now use a special sponge, one brought out by the "Sharks", ABC
Had anyone modeled this antenna ... seems a couple of the NJ crowds mono's were modeled and didn't fare very well .. anybody confirm.... One weekend many moons ago one of the Ercolino's was in town e
Getting up in years and I need to find a better "Mouse Trap" The LM-470D has a tilting frame which lets the tower tilt from Horizontal/Vertical via a Winch .... the tower comes with a Fulton KX1550,
I really don't find the below... In the real World .... My 12 element Log at 110" stays with my 4 element Quad at 80 feet ...but is behind a 4 element 44 foot W2PV mono at 140 feet at band opening an
Proper Grounding....???? Can we agree that a static crash/lightning/begins with a positive charge in Mother Earth, whether it be your Air Conditioner compressor/your vertical antenna/your tower/and o
I use the "Delta Loop" grounding system, with triangle spacing of 9 feet and some with 18 feet. I dope the rods every quarter. Have been hit a dozen times but nothing ever got in the shack. Once duri
I use a run of Chinese Grip braid, that grabs the whole run/length of all tower top wires and lets them down in a ZERO stress point affair...look at this site toward the end and see the approach Bill
Go to the bottom of http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm and see how to apply So I have four questions: (1) Source for a can (non-spray) of Prelube 6? ; (2) Opinions re Pre 6 vs Preube 19; (3) any u
-1.- When you do the quarterly service on your towers, then you refresh the copper flakes... -2.- Go to ...http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm .... and hit the link on "Tower grounding" or just scr
Have had three runs of RG-8 type running 125 feet across the roof, for 43 years and three new asphalt roofs.. Here in South Georgia the roof gets so hot you can not stand on it...but the SWR of 1.04