for my LM354. cannot find it in Northern Tool catalog and struck out on other web sources. lots of trailer winches for sale but not so many of this type. Help... Jim N1NK
A few of us (N6AW, N6TJ, and myself - AB6R at the time) did a good bit of work for/with Don at the rhombic farm up to the time of his passing. he had a good number of rhombics on the 24 acres, most h
thats right. you should have seen the size of the motor generator set. every time don parked it he plugged it into a major sized outlet to charge the battery for the next trip to long beach or the rh
I want to put a 6 and 2 meter yagi on my chimney. right now I have the radio shack hardware which will work just fine with 1.25 mast. This is too light, who makes hardware that will take, say, 2.0 in
I have noticed the same thing. Their antennas are obviously set for some real high frequency and the coax is then most likely something less flexible than RG213. Jim N1NK it
I am about to tie my ground rods to the tower via #4 copper wire with the ground rod end buried and tied together by a cadweld fitting. I have the wire, rods, and the cadweld hardware. Never having d
when we installed W6HT's LM470 a number of years ago, this is exactly what we did. the crane picked it up, swung it over, and dropped it right on the base which was already in place. all we had to to
I have my lm354 up with force12 c3e on top. after being a ham since 1959 it is nice to have a real antenna system. Next project is a ground system. first thought was to clamp the ground wire to the t
I started driving the first of planned 6 8' ground rods in this afternoon. ouch. also stopped by the local hardware store to see if they had or could point me to a sliding type drive device. they wer
just got through attaching my 2" OD thick wall aluminum mast to my tailtwister. noticed that the mast did not seat all the way into V of the bell housing. spent a few minutes looking at the situation
went on a search for fulton winches a couple of weeks ago after my old TowTek conked out. here is a brief summary: appropriate fulton winch for this tower is either the K-1550 which came standard or
the 2550 bolt pattern is similar in that there are 3 bolts however the spacing between the single and the pair and the spacing between the pair is different - larger. don't know about all towers but
OTOH, I had a backhoe in to dig the hole for my tower. something like 4x4x6 but we intentionally planned on making it bigger. the rig was a small/medium kubota. shovel was a bit over 12" wide, each s
looks like there will be a major test of structures of all kinds in NC, VA, etc later this week. it will be interesting to hear about what tower installations survived and which failed and the failur
actually the log periodic at Hughes Fullerton was the Collins military one. big monster. huge tower with rotating mast and the rotator was inside the penthouse at the bottom. so it was something like
yes, being southern CA, cold was a quite different experience than MA. we would never get more than cool even though the shack, a metal penthouse, was not insulated. the Henry amp kept it quite nice.
well you may not have ever seen one but I operated using one for a number of years. it was a long boom, would not fit into most properties. see my previous posts on this thread today. Jim N1NK -- Ori
anybody got copy of the manual for the 45' wilson tubular tower? this has two 24' sections. I had one at one time and tossed it and now I have a tower in need of some refurbishment. Jim N1NK ________
I had the same problem with my HAM IV/T2X. Solved it by grounding the case of the controller to the station ground. even though everything should have been grounded (ac wise) through the power cord g
anybody tried this combination? can it fit inside the tower to replace a T2X? the inside dimension of the3 faces of the inside (top) section is about 11.5 + a bit inches (14 inches at outside, 1.25 i