Bill, When I asked my local dealer a number of years back he said the upgrade kit is no longer available. So perhaps the Hy-Gain people are giving you prices for replacement bits and pieces that unde
Gregg, There is a article in this January QST using a balloon loop antenna, I see no reason it can't be resized and used on 160 meters. It might be worth a look at for your project. Also, a few years
The kite project I hinted at, that may or may not be adaptable for a balloon did indeed use 450 ohm ladder line. The article is in QST, April 2000 called 'NE2Q's Antenna Fell From the Sky' for those
Hmmmmm! Let's hope they never hook it up to a plasma TV!!!!!!!!!!! Eric. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTa
Dick, The microHAM antenna switches are my choice. I am very pleased with the double six model used here. Eric - VE3GSI _______________________________________________ _______________________________
Hi Roger, A simple junction tester will work just fine. I have a homebrew one that I built years ago to use with my oscilloscope. 73 Eric - VE3GSI - - content clipped - - ____________________________
Steve, These are the only articles by K5IU I found in the ARRL library. Not all articles are on the web, but for a small fee those printings can be obtained by mail from ARRL, I supect you know this
Two anecdotal stories about people being blind to towers. Last year in the late winter or early spring we had a new mail person assigned to our street. Every day when we received mail, she took a sho
Hi Tim, retightened. That can't be done! The TH7 has bolts through the boom for alignment at the boom to mask fitting, only the elements can be changed to realign to horizontal. I have photos of mine
TT Gang, We have been considering moving from our little in town lot to the country side. One of the homes on our short list has about 2 acres of land but there is only a scant few inches of dirt and
Thanks guys for the input on towers and rocks. It seems as much as both my wife and I liked the location and the near zero floor noise on HF, the house is a no go. The builder is holding out for a Ki
Hi Gang, After being here in the Town of Napanee for about 35 years we decided it was just about time to move. One of the reasons, the digital noise from the neighbourhood electronics is growing loud
All you vertical experts, Lately there has been a lot of great chatter on this reflector on radials, raised or otherwise. Since I am in the planning stages of a 40 meter raised vertical, not all that
Bob, My experience with a TH6 at 56 foot and a TH7 at 70 foot on two towers at the same time was as follows. By-the-way, the rigs used were identical Icom Pro III's. For the most part on 20 meters th
What is the proper way? I read the some of the reply posts talking about - well everything wrong with the hardware, and yes to me the installation does look like a major problem about to happen. But,
Kirb, I have never heard of grade 5 stainless bolts, but regardless, the bolts on a Delhi tower are shouldered or rather the tower is designed to use shouldered bolts and I am not sure if it is a goo
Which makes me wonder if we will ever really understand lightning. - - - This reminded me that years ago on a lot adjacent to ours, a neighbouring apartment building with a TV tower mounted on the r
Joe, I do have one of those tuners, but only use it when mobile or portable. You will find in the manual there are lengths of wire 'not' recommended for the tuner, normally 1/2 wavelength multiples o
Bill, I have a Davis Vantage Pro II (wired) and use third-party software called 'Weather Display': http://www.weather-display.com/index.php to post my data to the web at: http://www3.sympatico.ca/rei
Hi Roger, I use a 'Super Gainer' and have not had a problem with the base fold-over joint. But, I have had problems with noise which I traced to the joints where the rods go into the phasing componen