They are nice beams. I have the OB11-5 and I have been very pleased with it. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailin
When I was cleaning up motorbike parts, I used a brass brush on an electric drill with kerosene as a lubricant. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _____________________________
Goodness me...no wonder I can't break those pileups..hi hi Just interested how the 40m four square worked out as I am in the process off building one for 40m. My next job is to lay the radial field.
EHS Guy wire is so cheap that it isn't worth messing around with unknown cables. It is all the fittings and fixtures needed to make the guy assembly that costs the money. The Al wire is most likely a
On the advice of others. I replaced the plated mast clamp bolts ( horizontal bolts) with s/s hardware and applied plenty of Never Seez to the threads. I don't want to have to drill those bolts out wh
DXE supply a ring lug. You can crimp and solder the radial wire to the ring lug and then you can bolt the ring lug to the plate using the stainless steel nuts and bolts supplied with the plate. I wou
If you download the manufacturers data and installation sheets, it will tell you how to put them on. Yes it seems a bit strange at first but after you have put your first one on you will be OK to do
Here is some good information http://www.preformedsa.co.za/PDF/Transmission/Big-Grip%20Dead-End%20T%20-%2027.pdf http://www.preformed.com/preformed/files/AppProc/SP2049-3.pdf Mark N1UK ______________
I was given some LMR-600 by a good friend who posts on this list. It came with N Connectors which were fairly easy to fit if you used a sharp utility knife to prepare the coax. The stuff is pretty st
That is what I did......now I have an 86 foot Rohn 45 tower Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@
I have an Alpha Delta sloper ( the 40m, 80, 160m version with two sloping wires and a coil on the 40m/160m wire) set at the 72 foot level on my 86 foot Rohn 45 tower. I have an Optibeam OB-11 at 87 1
If you use phillystran then there is a lot less weight involved in the guy assemblies. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerT
Great ideas. I am going to try that this winter. I have a roll of some of that farm fencing in the barn. It has big squares at the top and smaller squares to the bottom. I haven't seen the square pla
There is this..not cheap but it does the job. It fits inside the legs of a standard section. http://www.3starinc.com/rohn_45g_top_cap_thrust_bearing_plate_r-bpl45g.html Mark N1UK ____________________
This guy has good prices and super quick delivery..he is a ham too http://www.gacopper.com/ Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ T
Yes I have a pair like that and they have nylon jaws on them. I use them to tighten my PL-259's without marring the plated surface. Mark N1UK _______________________________________________ _________
Can't you put a pair of shackles and preformed big ends in the middle where you want to split the guy wire. I use this shackle method to join the ehs to the phillystran on my top set of guys. Maybe y
It might be worth installing magnesium sacrificial anodes in the ground to protect the screw anchors from corrosion. There was an article on how to do this in a past issue of QST. I installed these a
PB Blaster is supposed to be the best off the shelf stuff but an even better mixture which has a short shelf life is to mix ATF and acetone. You could give that a try. Mark N1UK _____________________
I used MOV's with 0.1uF caps across them. This is what the Array Solutions box does. I tailored the MOV's for the 12v lines and the higher DC voltage motor lines for my M2 rotator. Mark N1UK ________