Stan, I can see that you look at things from a different angle than the norm. However, I think that you only eating half of the apple. And possible just a slice. Moving from the city to the country
Bob, the best way is drill a hole and sleeve it. Since I run gas line for a living, I do this all the time. I have a large Bosch drill that does the job. You can rent these at certain places for a mi
Anyone have a chart of the losses of 75ohm hardlines? I have several different sizes from 425 up to 750. I will be using them on freqs from 450mhz to 1.8mhz. Would like to see a chart of what my loss
Just recently aquired a small chunck of 3/4 catv jacketed hardline. I know how to make the transformers and connectors. I have ICE lightning protection at the base of my tower which is 100' plus from
Bill, I had a beam back in the early 80's made by TET that sounds very similar to that one. I think they are out of business today but made some nice antennas. I had 4 of them (all different ones) tr
Another overlooked antenna is the Hygain TH5MkII. I put it up a year ago and it built very good. No element sag at all and it's gone through 80mph winds here once and a few other times at 50mph. No s
I had the local power company come out here on a Saturday and install 3 anchors (16' long each) with their power truck. Took one hour to do them all and they charged me $500.....worth every penny. th
My nulls are not too sharp here. When working Africa I can sometimes hear best of my NE angle. However I also can hear some Africans on my SE at the same strength, telling me that he is in my null. I
Just came down from removing my 2 meter 10 element cushcraft yagi. The U-bolts broke backing off the nuts. It sure made life at 100 ft alot tougher than expected. This yagi was bought new less than a
(but it's true that the amount of concrete needed is Who says you need any cement for guyed towers? (Rohn I guess) I know of 6 large guyed towers in my area, the smallest being 140' that don't use a
David, count on loosing the quad in the near future. Here in Indiana and having quads for several years, it became a nearly anual ritual to: 1.) Rebuild 2.) Repair 3.) Replace I just loved my quads
Well that depends if you want to lower your take-off angle of radiation. Right now without any radials, your signal is going nearly straight up. This is good for local qso's but if your after the dx,
Congrats Dick on the job well done. I too installed one last year and hate to think of the hours I invested. But it's paid off. Not one dxpedition in the past 52 weeks has gotten by me on 40 meters.
Here is another thought..... As long as the tube is not 30+ feet, then get some paper, do a chalk line, cut out the holes, tape it to the tube, take some spray paint and paint thru holes onto the tub
Without modifying the top of my tower I believe I can mount this warc band rotatable dipole with it running even with the boom of my tribander and being just above it at 95 ft. Anyone using this have
How about running two of these wires at 35 degs apart going down to 3' at ground level at the far end. Terminate them with resistors then run a wire from each of the two wires at the base just below
Steve, give ICE a call. Located in Indianapolis. Ask for Mike Koss (W9SU). I have his lightning protection for lowbands, rotor, remote coax switch, vhf. They are built like a brick$#%^$house. (317)54
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Back about 15 years ago there was a photocopy paper floating around in the ham community that showed diagrams for making bazookas for each band using coax for the entire antenna. You had to short out
Instead of tape, I used a very stout nylon wire tie and gripped a 3 " piece of the coax to the bottom mast section of the vertical and I never had a problem in over 3 years of Indiana weather. Worked