After being reminded of the very helpful content on towers, prop-pitch motors, and yagi design on Kurt's website, K7NV.com, I wonder if someone on here, who was personal friends with him, could reach
Hi Jim - I had a G-1000DXA- and a G-800SA, both with the SDX controller, controlled by the ERC interface. The only functional difference is that the G-800SA controller requires an interface placed i
I'm coming a little late to this conversation, but maybe my experience will be illustrative - I had a tribander at 97 feet, with a 2-element 40-meter short yagi about 10 feet above it. Until I turne
Been reading this with interest. When I had my fairly-big station with a 100-foot tower, I found that having steel guys for the top set at 97 feet messed up my 40M yagi, 13 feet further up. Replaci
Sure, there have been such charts over the years. My point was that making segments of guys into resonant lengths would seem like a risky endeavor for the performance of the antennas on the tower, e
Solder-It is this way - the flame stays entirely under the soldering top, and is enclosed. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<https://reversebeacon.net>. For spots,
I'd be interested in this. I think the answer is fairly straightforward, depending on how far the end is (electrically) from the feedpoint, but specifics escape me. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new R
Which raises an interesting (at least to me) question. My 160M inverted L has 16 ~50-foot on-the-ground radials, insulated except at the ends. I run 1.5 KW. Are those radials dangerous, if someone
Hi Paul - I have the same situation, except that the HV lines are a little closer to my antennas. In 5 years, I have had lots of line noise problems, but all of them have involved the lower-voltage
Further to the original subject - someone commented about the likelihood of lightning striking one of the HV towers. A couple of months ago I had a near hit, as measured by the lack of any delay bet
Not blaming Ed, but is this for real? I wonder what all the 75 and 160M phone guys think of this? 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<https://reversebeacon.net>. For
I expect I'm an outlier, in a couple of respects. I have 30 x 70-foot radials on the ground under my 160M inverted L. I'm sure this will bother people, but I made up the radials from a spool of abo
I'm fairly comfortable in that respect - the taxpayers who paid for this stuff got a darned sturdy product. It's a battle even to strip. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web se
Conversely, and this is a liberal arts guy talking , it would seem logical that as you laid down radicals, you could watch the R component, and when the R value curve flattened out "enough", you coul
A somewhat related question - as the R component at the feedpoint of my inverted L goes down toward 25 ohms, I've begun wondering if I should do some matching at the feedpoint, rather than using my t
Understood, Jim. Interestingly, I just found out that the ground conductivity in my area is probably very good, on the order of 2-4 millisiemens, which may reduce the need for a huge number of radial
I'm not sure if this is the right place or not, but thought I'd ask because this is at least a feedline question. I have a number of SMA connectors in areas of my station like my RBN SDR and my N1MM
Thanks, guys - I wasn't aware of a torque standard - guess I've been spoiled by BNCs. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<https://reversebeacon.net>. For spots, pleas
My first thought is/was that there might be some sort of conductive Loctite-equivalent that I could use. Nothing found so far. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<ht
Has anyone tried clear Gorilla Glue for this? I bought some to repair a fiberglass pole that I had accidentally driven over - don't ask. Worked great to impregnate some fiberglass tape laid on the