Whats that saying called again? Do what the manufacturer says to do and dont do something that isnt what the manufacturer says to do. Some kind of prime directive? ;-) 73, kelly, ve4xt Sent from my i
Im assuming the dipole is slacked during a storm because it has hard attachments at the ends? Once the dipole is free, it may be worth addressing that so this all doesnt happen again. Pulleys and wei
Might be easiest, if you can sacrifice the lengths of cables contained within the conduit, to simply remove the conduit/spray foam/cables in one unit and replace the conduit with new. 73, kelly, ve4x
Im tempted to try a drone myself. My issue is the trees I want to use arent alone... so while the slingshot gets the line up and over, it takes too many tries before the weight doesnt get caught up i
Hi Jim, The one thought that occurred to me given the K7LXC need to avoid horizontal wires was in remembering K9YC's work at using a choke to make a vertical dipole by putting the choke 1/4-wl away f
Theres a really interesting blog post out there that is probably only a quick Google session away. It basically made the case that PVC is a total nightmare EVEN for just wire antennas, let alone anyt
Davis DRF-400 appears to be 76cents per foot up to 1k feet; Shireen appears to be $1.45 per foot (less in bulk). DXE DX Max 400 is 95 cents per foot, 86 cents per foot on a 500-foot roll. If youre in
For such a length, would installing the motor-start capacitor, normally inside the control box, nearer to the rotor help? 73, kelly, ve4xt Sent from my iPhone ________________________________________
You also don't get power to the motor without engaging the brake switch, since the transformer that powers the motor circuits is in series with the brake switch. 73, kelly, ve4xt And, if you disconne
It probably should NOT be attached to the towers lattice structure, which is thin stamped steel held in place with aluminum rivets (which is why assembled Rohn HBX sections shouldnt be hot-dipped) Pr
Curious at what point, given the cost of hardline, does one consider running code-compliant power out to the towers, putting the RF components there and using either ethernet or fibre between the con