Hey gang, If anyone cares or is interested in pictures of my tower and the corresponding tower party from last fall, it's now up on my website at the following link: www.qsl.net/na9d/QTH/hamshack.htm
Not a bad idea. With a short top section, there is plenty of room. We actually assembled the top section, rotor plate and the final 10 foot section of tower on the ground before hoisting it up. Made
How big is your top section? My 3 foot tapered section has plenty of adequate space at the bottom where it and the section below it meet. I wouldn't lie about that and I can prove it with pictures. S
I just looked at the Rohn catalog sheet. The 25AG4 top section is 8' 3/16" long. The spot for the rotor is 1' 4" 3/4"(or 16 3/4") from the top. That's plenty of room to mount the rotor plate and roto
The tower was (and is) guyed at 25 feet (so noted on the page). So, in reality, they were less than 30 feet above the first set of guys. Clearly w/in specs. I had to un-guy the tower and correct the
Hi Bill, What's your call sign? As a relative newbie to towers myself, a lot of the questions and answers are still in my mind. 1.) What are you planning on using the tower for? Thirty-five feet isn'
I'll agree that grounding on a roof tower is much more difficult and structurally, there's some work that must be paid attention too. But that structural work is not any more difficult than building
Hi gang, What's the difference between a Ham IV and a Ham M? I thought that the Ham M didn't have the wedge brake assembly and so was a little shorter but otherwise they were the same. I just bought
I did some reading and one of the major differences appears to be that the Ham IV uses a stainless steel ring gear as opposed to the pot metal gear. The rotor I bought was just rebuilt with the stain
The bottom of the rotor has a 4 stamped on the bottom one side of the terminal strip and 401 stamped on the other end. ?? 73, Jon NA9D -- Jon Ogden NA9D (ex: KE9NA) Citizen of the People's Democratic
Thanks all for all the info on the Ham M vs. Ham IV rotors. Here's one final question: I need my new Ham M to rotate through South as it's going to be an azimuth rotor for my satellite station. Where
Hi gang, I have been planning on getting a new beam to replace my aging TA-33. The antenna I have been considering is a Force-12 C4XSL, but I am also interested in the Bencher Skyhawk. The main advan
Thanks to all of you who provided me comments on the Bencher Skyhawk. I didn't really hear a single bad thing about the antenna. The current owner of the antenna in question and I have reached agreem
Hey gang, I am seriously considering some sort of automatic rotor control in the near future. I am interested in what people think of the different solutions out there. My rotors are a Ham IV, a Ham-
I've heard about this. But I think the ISA slot is only used for supplying power from what I have read so you can externally power the card. The problem (from what I remember) is that the Sartek mode
The EA4TX interface is the ARSWin product I was asking about..... -- Jon Ogden NA9D (ex: KE9NA) Citizen of the People's Democratic Republik of Illinois Life Member: ARRL, NRA Member: AMSAT, DXCC http
I'd agree with that. It may also depend on how they define the terms. Every antenna has a figure for "radiation" resistance. Could they be basing it on that? Or is it the power lost in the loaded coi
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Agreed. With such protectors (ICE and Polyphaser both have DC grounded models) there is no need for any other form of static drain. Plus, I've been told that with continuous static drain, it makes yo
Pete, There's been HUGE discussions on the danger of disconnecting for lightning protection. A pulse on your feedline could literally jump through the air in your shack looking for that lowest resist