- 1. [TowerTalk] decoupling (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:39:07 -0500
- We are going to raise some dipoles (160, 80 and 40) on our existing towers. The towers are in the fifty/seventy foot ranges. There are beams on all of them and they are all lattice construction. If t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-11/msg00063.html (7,966 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] water level (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:15:10 -0500
- <watch for heating along the length of the hose. If one end is hotter than the other, such as, most > We were trying to establish a level line for two 100 foot or so rows of suspended track light. I
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-11/msg00581.html (7,963 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] Quad stack (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:42:58 -0400
- One of the lads is preparing to stack a 2 meter 6L and 70cm 11L array. The question arises as to the distance between them. They will be conventional horizontal feeds. What is the suggested distance
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-10/msg00511.html (7,375 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] 25G (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:29:46 -0400
- How risky is it to hoist 60 feet of 25G from somewhere above the C of G? The club (Steel City ARC, W3KWH) is trying to get the ATV repeater receive antenna a bit higher above the tree line. The anten
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-07/msg00469.html (8,228 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] 25G, ad nauseam (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:24:11 -0400
- Thanks folks; I'm very encouraged by all of the good info presented. Art, W1RZF, has a "picture perfect" copy of how we will end up. In my haste, I didn't mention the telephone pole which is to be ou
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-07/msg00502.html (7,196 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] house wiring ...rfi reduction (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:55:53 -0400
- You might consider doing the AC wiring in BX. A tad more expensive but it would put a steel or aluminum spiral jacket shield around your line voltage wiring. The proper connectors should establish a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-06/msg00199.html (7,985 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] Quadrifilar antenna (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:15:56 -0400
- Buck Ruperto, W3KH, had an article with a nice cover photo of his quadrifiler design. 'Don't think it was APRIL 1 humor, it's not his style! 73 de Nate, W3SVJ, in Pittsburgh where it's not so smokey
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-06/msg00268.html (7,769 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] Drilling Chrome-Moly Steel (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:42:16 -0400
- Be careful of the "mag drill", they don't like round surfaces such as a pipe! The magnet will really "clunk" down and work almost like a drill press on flat steel, but not very good on a smaller roun
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-06/msg00460.html (7,854 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] Fw: connectors (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (w3svj@juno.com)
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 06:29:03 -0500
- Does anybody have the really "Good Book" on coax connectors? The Steel City ARC, W3KWH, is working up a patch panel at the club station to make life in the multi-multi world a little easier. There wi
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2001-02/msg00370.html (8,047 bytes)
- 10. [TowerTalk] Slow motion tower (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:29:26 -0500
- Dick; We had a situation with a customer with three motor driven overhead dock doors large enough for semi trailers to back in. When we first put them up everything worked OK for more than a couple o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-12/msg00034.html (7,999 bytes)
- 11. [TowerTalk] WD-40 on going (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:17:03 -0500
- A friend clued me into using WD-40 instead of the regular "ether" products for starting small engines. He suggested that the lube content, at what ever level, was somewhat less damaging than pure sta
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-12/msg00201.html (8,840 bytes)
- 12. [TowerTalk] spiney globe antenna? (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:44:00 -0500
- Or an urban myth static electricity/lighting dissipator. You didn't mention how big it was. 73 de Nate, W3SVJ, in Pittsburgh where it's not so smokey anymore. ________________________________________
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-12/msg00385.html (7,034 bytes)
- 13. [TowerTalk] Coax Advice? (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 06:57:08 -0500
- Has anybody used AIRCOM PLUS and/or AIRCELL 7? According to SSB Electronics ad, these cables require special connectors to get to the rest of the world. I may have misunderstood that, maybe conventio
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-12/msg00446.html (7,734 bytes)
- 14. [TowerTalk] Mix n' match? (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:48:45 -0400
- Our club (Steel City ARC, W3KWH) would like to hang a 6 meter, 30 foot boom beam over or under a TA33. The concern is to how much pattern/gain deterioration will occur to the six meter antenna. The l
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00253.html (7,354 bytes)
- 15. [TowerTalk] Wire size (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 07:17:15 -0400
- Is there any theoretical or, more importantly, practical difference in the performance of a vertical antenna using "skinny" buried radials. If I planned to use ten radials of #16 bare copper and then
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00498.html (7,494 bytes)
- 16. [TowerTalk] soldering flux (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:53:58 -0400
- I know we are not supposed to use it in the electrical trade (who solders 14/12 wire these days anyway) but I could understand the reasoning. The acid flux itself is conductive and eventually would l
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00732.html (7,618 bytes)
- 17. [TowerTalk] Tree anchors (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 07:48:13 -0400
- Blessings or not. The STEEL CITY ARC is surrounded by trees that are sometimes used for guy anchors as well as wire antenna supports. A method that we use often is to drill through the tree trunk at
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-09/msg00231.html (8,821 bytes)
- 18. [TowerTalk] bitumen and other coverings (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:01:21 -0400
- What is the green/yellow coating that's on every piece of rebar that goes into highway jobs, zinc/chromate? The outdoor sign guys who use "H" beams in concrete for their billboard supports paint the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-09/msg00427.html (7,416 bytes)
- 19. [TowerTalk] KLM (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 07:37:23 -0400
- What is KLM's web URL? Thanks & 73 de Nate, W3SVJ, in Pittsburgh where it's not so smokey anymore. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way yo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-09/msg00514.html (6,946 bytes)
- 20. [TowerTalk] KLM URL (score: 1)
- Author: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:37:42 -0400
- The eskimo got me to KLM, thanks. 73 de Nate, W3SVJ, in Pittsburgh where it's not so smokey anymore. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-09/msg00519.html (6,883 bytes)
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