Dear Friends, I have to extend the length of my 450 ohm balanced line and have bought another length to connect to it. Can I simply join the two sections together as I would any other wire (cleaning,
Dear All, I wanted to say thanks for all the input on joining 450 ohm window pane. Sounds like the consensus is that it can merely be spliced without any special connectors, etc. I'm very grateful fo
Dear All, I'm trying to elevate my very low dipole that is fed with balanced line. I'm trying to go with a non-metallic support so the balanced line does not interact. My dipole is currently 18' in t
Dear Friends, A few months ago, I asked for advice getting a 40' high center support installed for my random length dipole fed with 450 ohm balanced line and tuned with a homebrew link-coupled tuner.
Hi Everyone, I'm going to look at a Mosley TA-33 this weekend. The beam has been stored for 15 years so it's condition is unknown. The best I know is that it "was working before we took it down". I h
Dear All, With the great advice that I received from everyone the past couple months, I was able to buy a down-trodden TA-33 for a Field Day antenna. This TA-33 had been stored outside, on the ground
Hi Everyone, We put up a Rohn 25G for our Field Day last week and everything went great. We borrowed the 25G tower and can buy it from the guy who lent it to us but he wants his hinged base plate bac
Hi Everyone, Over the past few months, I posted lots of questions about how to evaluate a Mosley TA-33 a few local guys were considering purchasing for a Field Day antenna. Thanks to all of you, we w
Hi Everyone, I went to look at at tower today and it was 3 sections of aluminum tower, each 8 ft. long. They are 18" across. Here are three photos: http://www.mindspring.com/~vibroplex/mystery_tower_
Hi Everyone, The consensus seems to be that these are "Heights" tower sections. I'm very grateful for everybody's help! 73, Derek Cohn Morse Telegraph Club - Alton Chapter Office UD, Sine DJ Amateur
Hi Everyone, I'm posting this for a friend, Mike WBØSND: I'm putting up a temporary beam installation and need to know the appropriate kind of rope to use for guying the mast (poly, nylon, or
Hi Everyone, Someone sent me a few photos of a tower that they want to sell. However, I'm having trouble determining what tower it is. My thinking is that it's Rohn 25G but I'm not very knowledgeable
Hi Don, Here they are as .JPEGs....thank you for your suggestion: http://www.mindspring.com/~vibroplex/mystery_tower.jpg http://www.mindspring.com/~vibroplex/mystery_tower2.jpg http://www.mindspring.
Hi Everyone, Thank you so much for help in identifying the mystery tower. From the tape measure in the photo, odds are very high that it is 25G (I'll make my own measurements when I go see it to conf
Hi Everyone, I've posted this before (last year) so I apologize for repeating it. However, here is our Field Day project from 2007 that included refurbishing a TA-33 that had been on the ground 15 ye
Hi Everyone, I'm helping a friend take down a crank down/tilt over tower. I'm not familiar with this tower and we'd like your help in identifying what it is: Here are some photos: http://webpages.cha
Hi Everyone, Over the past couple of years, a small group of hams (about 6 - 8 guys) in the St. Louis, MO area has put together a Field Day station. Each year, we try to build on the effort of the pr
Hi Everyone, A small group of us in the St. Louis area (Clayton) is putting on a two station Field Day (2A) this coming weekend. We plan to have two towers up in the air for the antennas: * 40 feet o
Hi Everyone, This year, our Field Day group put up two Rohn 25G towers. Towers were erected in the middle of a full size football field and separated by enough distance that if either one fell, it wo
Hi Everyone, As we have done the past 3 years, our little group is going to put on a Field Day in the St. Louis, MO suburb of Clayton. This past year, we put up two towers: * 4 sections of Rohn 25G o