TT'ers, How about using railroad rails? I see 15-20 pieces scattered along the train tracks. Would these be the ticket? Rex K1HI Hank, You talked about how far in ground and how much above and how mu
Or a long bungee cord, in parallel with a very slack rope. de K1HI Tommy: How 'bout a weight on a pulley at the far end of the sloper wire. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F -- Original Message -- From: <Berggren
Al, The cumulative knowledge of TT is always available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/Towertalk/, and there is a search function you can use, wo you don'thave to save it yourself! Enjoy
Mark, One way to do it is to take a 3 foot (depending on the length of your boom) section of the 3 inch stuff and to cut it along its length. Then make another, parallel cut so you have a slot runnin
TTers, I had a claim a few years back, and the feedline served as the "attachement" making the tower "covered." Rex K1HI --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
Tod, That was great! Thanks for posting this - a word is worth a millipicture. Rex K1HI A few days ago I said that I would load some pictures showing the wind effect on a beam which had a single elem
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If you are going to all that trouble, make them longer than 20 feet: make them long enough to let you load the tower as a vertical on the low bands. Rex K1HI --Original Message-- From: towertalk-boun
Pat, The cable goes up to a PULLEY, then down again to another. The pulley is taking half the load, so a percentage the load *IS* carried by the corners of the tower. The lift cable is *NOT* carrying
I wouldn't think the load on them would be very much. What am I missing? Rex K1HI --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bil
It would be about 400 lbs! de K1HI _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll
As long as you have a short mast (less than 10 feet) and only one beam (mounted close to the "tower", you can get by just using the sleeve as a bushing, and not use a bearing at all. Mount the rotato
Since Derek feeds HIS dipole with 450 ohm line, feedline loss due to mismatch is not really much of an issue. de K1HI. . . Cebik ignored matching and feeline loss in that analysis and ONLY looked at
According to QRZ.com WB2ZTH GEORGE M SAU 74 BROADWAY GARDEN CITY PARK NY 11040 USA de K1HI from ka9fox: Found you guys talking about geo888@cs.com bouncing on your list. He was doing the same thing o
Perhaps parabolic is overkill... See http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html de K1HI Hi! Please help me with some good links for constructing a parabolic antenna? regards YA ____________
...and according to http://www.arcecs.org/, his current email is george888@optonline.net. George, if you read this, you've been a mystery for nigh on a year or so! de K1HI Rex According to QRZ.com WB
Hi All, I've found a great way to cope with the "it won't fit" problem when I'm up the tower: I carry a hammer. When I try to put the female over the male, I can always get 2 legs to fit. The third o
George, Pleasae contact Steve, K7LXC@aol.com, the moderator of Tower Talk to work through the username you might have used to register with tower talk. Steve, his address is above. 73, Rex K1HI --Ori
If I remember right, it doesn't tell you the sign of the reactance - you have to dope that out by shifting the frequency a little and seeing if it goes up or down with plus or minus change in freq.,
Gene, See http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/Towertalk/1999-11/msg00533.html - they claim force 12 took over for tri-ex. Rex - K1HI All, I have the opportunity to get a 60' Tri-Ex RBX-60 crank