Try any electrical supply house. Try HOME DEPOT.... Both places have it. Do not forget the rubber gloves and coveralls, can become quite a messy operation.... I prefer the 3M putty tape and scotch 33
Hello Jim, Find a reputable, local concrete contractor and talk to him. Yellow pages would be a good start.... or talk to any general contractors you know. Additives can be added to the concrete mix
Hello Larry, Critical issue is to allow water drainage from the legs of a short base section. If allowed to collect water the water may fgreeze expanding the leg, splitting it and severly weakening t
While we are on the rebar thread.... What is the new coated rebar found now on many civil works projects..? Seems to be a light green paint. Can we use this on our tower bases and anchors.. ? Stan,WA
Hello Aaron, I get my Bentonite in 5 gallon buckets and it is pelletized. about 35$ a bucket at a well drilling supply house. They use it to seal up the joint between the well casing and the earth ar
Hello Richard, I see 3 choices: 1. use the single piece of 7', 1.5"OD fiberglass boom from KLM. feed it through the elevation positioner then add the antennas. 2. Use the M2 3 piece 11' boom, 2 piece
Hello Reid, For my older sattelite boom I used the KLM fiberglass 1.5" OD boom. Upon their suggestion I added 6" of 1" OD solid fiberglass dowel into the boom ends. I also added the stick-on traction
Hello Terry, I have a simple rule I live by.. people safety items like carabiners, aka snap-links, safety belts and harnesses, people safety lines are ONLY used for that apllication, NOTHING else. fo
Hello Tom, read the fine print in the ROHN catalog... (Which many miss) Rohn requires a asphaultic (tar) paint on all buried galvanized parts to insulate from the corrosive soil. My 6 each guy anchor
Hello Phil, The spiral formed solid copper outer shield went out of production in middle to late 70's. It would hose water along its length, if water got under the outer jacket. Type was FHJ5-50 for
Hello Phil, I am using a ANDREW's model 45AW, a N(male) for the FHJ5-50, 7/8" HELIAX. Suggest you call ANDREW at 1-800-255-1479 for details on connectors for the FHJ series of spiral formed outer shi
Hi Dale, I originally used my MFJ259 as a marker generator with a HP-141T spectrum analyzer. The MFJ is a failrly clean and continuously tunable signal source. The frequency counter was reasonably ac
would it serve any purpose to add additional temporary guys at a level midway between existing permanent guys , during wind storm conditions ? How about closer to the bottom or between the ground lev
Hello Brian, A couple of thoughts.. I prefer to use to use forms that I locally construct out of construction lumber, 2 x4's and 1/2" exterior plywood, I individually construct each of the 4 panels w
I do not take any extra precautions. I do use a "figure 8" servive loop with excess guy line as it comes out of the big grip, I wind it through the turnbuckle center section, then through the EQ plat
Hello Pete, try my KISS method. I use a 18" x 18" 3/16" aluminum bulkhead mounted over a 15" x 15" "window in the foundation. I use N type (female to female) bulkhead connectors. I use a 5/8" paddle
Hello Bart, I have a few 900 Mhz cell phone solid state RF power amplifiers. I believe they are for 24 to 28 VDC. These are commercial quality and were intended to be power up all of the time with hi
about 100$ to rebuild a tail twister at the factory with fast turn around.. Yaesu is expected to be much more with a longer wait. consider the tailtwister with the DCU-1 digital control box. I like m
I am in the midst of planning to mount some microwave dishes on a side mount on my main rohn 45 tower (70'). I wlll be using the IIX Equipment LTD model RM16 side mount system. I will start with an a
A number of comments have raised the issue of how to treat galvanized steel below ground and NOT in concrete. ROHN has a requirement in fine print... ROHN Drawing B841300R10, Foundation Material Spec