Looking for Hustler 4BTV with the 30m trap. If you have one to dispose of, please write with particulars, condition and $ incl. shipping to Honolulu. Thanks. -bob wb4mnf
Borrow an introductory statics book. work back from Rohn numbers work forward to a safe design. You might want to grab an introductory soil mechanics book while you're at it. -bob
I used to work in marine oil exploration. We had to keep the salt water out of submerged cables/instruments. Here is the trick we used, requires the following 3M products 1) ScotchKote http://www.par
There has to be a corollary to 'Feel Good' Bailey's observation, "If it's heavy, it's good" that one could apply to this stuff that does the job so well :-) to channel
Towertalk first, next rec.radio.swap. Here is the deal. Pay me what it's worth to you. If it's worth nothing other than the time to pick it up, it's free. However, I could really use a 12 pack of PBR
What's the word these days on guy wires. Break 'em up with insulators or make up transmission line sections to get away from resonance near operating freqs? Thanks, -bob
Was looking at Trylon web site. Self supporting tower. Titan 72' 44lb load at 70mph $1800 plus ship. This is pretty inexpensive compared to the other 72' self supporting I've seen. Have any of you gu
Frigging cats kill 10 million birds a year. But cats are sacred animals. Let your dog kill a cat and he's labeled 'vicious'. Frigging cats kill almost every night out, and they don't even eat the stu
Tom Champlin wrote: How would you know that? Have you counted the "cat kills" ?? Or are you just running your big mouth and showing your ignorance??? Tom -- Original Message -- From: "tongaloa" <tong
4 and 20 :-) on4kj wrote: Just open a restaurant under the tower....You got fresh birds on the dishes every day. Even those who you would not be allowed to chase. I have hundreds of starlings on the
Recommended reading... <http://www.hycyber.com/SF/marching_morons.html> -Bob Michael Keane, K1MK wrote: At 02:09 PM 8/22/03, David Robbins K1TTT wrote: I find more birds dead under my big windows tha
Would it be the fishermans bend shown on this page (last item)? http://www.realknots.com/knots/fishbend.htm Terry Dunlap wrote: All three of those sites show different versions of a double figure 8 a
The old Iridium phone antennas are a good example of this stuff and discussed at a couple of www accessible sites... -Bob ahi AA6DX wrote: Here's the "teaser" they offer...drat, now have to go get th
corneliuspaul@gmx.net wrote: VE6WZ wrote: Put both elements back pointing the same direction. Shorten all the elements on the 20 the same amount to bring it back to resonance. The fact that the 20m Y
Can't help on the tubing size but am also working on a 1/4 wave vertical for 80 and plan to make it a little short and put a 20m trap in the middle for 2 x 1/2 waves in phase on 20 as a bonus to the
Not all that large but... Have spiders for 3" boom and 18 x spreaders (fiberglass) enough for 4 ele plus 2 spare 20m quad that I'm selling. Would like $440 cash for all, in Atlanta. Perhaps someone c
about $100/hour at my atlanta qth maybe a little extra for 300' of hose Carl wrote: Gerald Have you ever heard of a 'concrete pumper'? I had my tower base concrete pumped in (300' from the road) so t
machinist / welder guys I know are interested in manufacturing another product and I suggested they look into doing a tubing type nesting mast for radio antennas. wonder what features folks are looki
K3BU@aol.com wrote: The importance of this phenomena is that efficiency of loaded or shortened antennas is roughly proportional to the area under the current distribution curve along the element. Loa
As an aside, the misnomer 'guide' wire is a real item but applies to fencing rather than antennas. It's the wire along the bottom of the fence that one ties the fence to. ____________________________