Hi guys, my ears are burning. First, I think you have to jump to a lot of small conclusions along the way to conclude that my installation is unsafe by looking at a few photos. Unfortunately, it look
In a few words - every installation is different and just because it worked at one guy's house one time doesn't mean it will work at yours. I think the biggest variable is the soil you put them in. A
Yes. This description: is a description of each guy anchor. Two towers, six guy anchors. Mark, N5OT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ To
I believe that an inverted-L is usually used as a space-saving option to try and approach quarter-wave vertical performance without using a quarter-wave of height, correct? Grossly paraphrased, the l
Wow, a tower trailer thread. Few things turn me on more in our great hobby than tower trailers. This will be long. I read and digested the whole thread and here's my $0.02. All of us owe a debt of g
Thanks for the details, Mike. I think Caltech's (Marty's old) tower trailer needs to be nicknamed "the tower trailer that wouldn't die." It's seen some, uh, "action." ("Abuse?") I will admit that I
Actually wouldn't you you only have to bleed off enough energy so that your tower is no longer the desired point of arc? Sort of like running away from a bear - you don't have to be the fastest pers
This is an anecdote reported by many more than one station owner/builder (I think I can recall 5 or 6). The number of reports would take it out of the "wives tale" and "urban legend" category as far
Thanks Mike, I found your post very interesting. We have a hot-dip galvanizing place here that I may have to take stuff to someday. They price by the "hundredwight". I always thought this would make
I'm not sure I buy this, Rolf. I work plenty of guys with PVC in their antennas. My antennas have PVC in them. Are you saying we'd all be louder without it? Something tells me that in practical appli
I have modeled a lot of antennas for a lot of years, and I have concluded that varying the yagi height will change the take-off angle much more than any amount of varying element lengths. Varying el
Ed, you didn't say what your design objective(s) is(are). Do you want to talk to your brother in Texas, win Sweepstakes, make the honor roll, or win W6 in the ARRL DX Contest? Oh, and of course ragch
Missing pieces of this puzzle: Are signal levels lower on the A4S? Do you get better reports on the SteppIR? You didn't say. This won't be much of a puzzle if signals are better on the SteppIR :) Ma
Ed, stacking these two antennas does not present insurmountable phasing issues. You could model it and see. It might have unexpected results because of element spacing, etc, but nothing the model wou
I second this. The digest is for your convenience. Please don't make the other 400 of us dig through a bunch of krappe for your convenience. I'm with the guy who said "if DIGEST then DELETE." Life i
Also, gain is often not the main goal when stacking tribanders; the main goal is often to cover two directions at once. Mark, N5OT _______________________________________________ ___________________
Standard equipment on Universal aluminum towers is plated nuts and bolts. For an upgrade fee they will ship stainless steel nuts and bolts. I have had Universal aluminum towers bolted together with
Barry, W1HFN asked: [etc] Barry, some of your questions may be answered by the strength of your mast and the windload capacity of your rotator. Should we assume the tower will be guyed? If it was me,