Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:02:57 -0500
OK, I know this has got to be a dumb question, but here goes. Most of my ham career I never used real antenna rotators. I used homebrew contraptions or the like. Now I have an 80 foot tower with a re
Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:44:02 -0500
Thanks for all the replies to this! All these years I somehow managed to not hear about this issue, which it turns out is very common. Most suggested spacers under the rotor, along the lines I was th
Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:21:33 -0500
That's probably true. I have never seen anything resembling a text book lightning protection scheme around here either... not at ham stations and not at most commercial radio installations I've seen!
Terry, That would be a lot closer to how I am building mine. After telescoping, typically 1' per joint, I have 6' 2" x .120 wall, 5' 1.75" x .120 wall, 6' 1.5" x .120 wall (they were 7' sections). Th
Hi Terry, I asked this question a couple of months ago. Several people did some modeling and say it should work fine. I have built a full size 40 meter rotatable dipole and plan to add 30 meters to i