Dave: If your looking for a good tower professional in the Central Florida area, I highly recommend Skyline Towers. It is a husband and wife team. Bobby (the husband) has been doing tower work for ma
I am in the process of taking down a 60' freestanding tower made by Aermotor. They are best known as windmill and windmill tower manufacturers. This is a three leg tower that is extremely similar to
Do you have a favorite vendor for hardware? I've got to replace the hardware on a couple hundred feet of AB105 also. Doug K4DDR _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscompu
I am in the process of putting a 50 year old three leg windmill tower (Aeromotor) up. It doesn't have any rust problem, although there is some light surface on the upper section. I am using a stainle
I occasionally see them on eBay; there's one listed there now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4672&item=5734672278& rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW 73, Doug K4DDR _______________________
Is the XM240's driven element normally grounded or floating? Does the Ameritron ground unused ports? Do you still get high SWR if the TH7 is the only antenna connected to the Ameritron? Just a wild g
Does anyone know of a location to download the manual from? Doug K4DDR _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather S
After quite a bit of delay, I am back to refurbishing a 57' Aermotor 3 legged windmill tower (model MP-5 I believe) and have a couple of questions: 1) During disassembly, several of the 1/4" round br
I have removed them by twisting while pulling upward using a large pipe wrench. It works fairly well in our relatively sandy soil here in Florida. Doug K4DDR _________________________________________
At present, I have a horizontal loop for 6 meters at about 20'. Six has had a lot of openings lately so I thought I'd play with a small yagi. In searching the web, I ran across an article for buildin
I just acquired a Tri-Ex LM-354HDSP with the erection fixture. The tower was originally purchased sometime between 1999 and 2001; it's serial number is 71489. I have several questions: 1) In research
Would you happen to know the part number(s) for the round plug for the rotor itself? Are these the same connectors that are used on the G-2700? Tnx, Doug K4DDR _______________________________________
Due to my proximity to a small airport, the FAA is requiring obstruction lighting (L-810 light or lights) on my tower; painting is not required though. The tower will be a Tri-Ex LM-354HDSP 54' crank
Roger: I'm about 1900 feet due north of the runway for Mid-Florida Airport (Eustis); the runway is north-south and planes pass directly over my property. It is a 3500' or so grass strip in what used
Better make that a horizontal loop. Using a vertical will cost you 20dB of cross polarization loss when communicating with others using horizontal yagis- at least on local communications. Doug K4DDR
Very good advice. Since the tower is a crank-up, I need to make sure the vertical stays out of the way of the antennas at the top of the tower when the tower is retracted. I figured putting a sidearm
Assuming the base is properly centered, this is true for towers that are straight (top width is the same as bottom width). For towers that taper, true for some, false for others. The below ground bas
Below is a diagram of my house. (not to scale...) Meters| Driveway | Shack Generators Tower The house has two electrical meters (main residence & in-law apt.) feeding two separate electrical panels.
Gene: I may not have been clear enough in my description. I plan to use one generator, with an auto transfer switch which prevents back-feeding the utility, for the house which has its own meter and
Actually, this is not that complicated... There are three wires coming from the power pole (two hots and the neutral). There are three wires coming from the generator (two hots and a neutral). There