I had an EZ way from 1976 until 2003 and it was just fine. It was standing and free upon removal; it took several hours of watering/digging/watering/digging and a lot of lifting with a rented automot
I replaced an early BigIR and 80 meter coil with the Zero-Five 43 foot vertical and have been totally pleased with the performance on 80-10, and, by adding a 95 foot top wire, it plays well on 160. A
So, when the 30 foot x 20 foot grid of 1/2 inch diameter steel rebar rods on the ground under my vertical, in place for 4 years with, so far, no real signs of crumbling, do eventually corrode away, i
Don't expect the arms to keep the cable cluster from being blown into the telescoping tower sections, if you tarry a bit and don't start lowering the tower before the storm arrives. Early on, I used
I needed a 160 foot crane boom to remove the old tower and install the new one, because the only access was from the street in front of the house. (In fact, the Crane company had to file and get a pe
NAA at Cutler ME, transmitting on 14.7 KHz to submarines so the RF would penetrate the water a few scores of feet, in winter, would periodically stop the CW broadcast, and a sloppy hand key would sen
My city lot (75x145) backs up to the 100 foot wide right of way for a pair of 125KV lines, on 125 foot towers, that runs North-South. The tower to the Northwest is 225 feet from the corner of my prop
I'm fairly certain that some of the earliest telegraph lines were curved rather than bent because there was a belief the signals would go straight if the turn was too sharp. Barry, W5GN the original
Google Curved Telegraph Lines, and the Google Book Review of "The Telegrapher", will provide one proof that the theory was under discussion, in the first few paragraphs of that letter to the Editor d
At KG4CS in 1970, when phone patches were critical for the residents, so the base gave great support to hams, as soon as I was assigned quarters on East Bargo, I was then taken around the base by the
I'm certain I saw pictures of Don Wallace, W6AM, on his tower past his 80th birthday. Barry, W5GN The older you are, the less you'll do it! If you're in your 40's (or younger): No problem, you do it
I had the exact same symptoms several years ago, and could visually see the mast section to the top of the rotator was off-vertical, and then found two of the three bolts that hold the rotator were g
Can you use one of these things to hold up a 135 foot vertical? That also feeds 12 volts to keep it up? Barry, W5GN A great use for a drone. Mike W0MU _______________________________________________
I have an OB16-3 17 feet above a CAL AV 2-el 40 and experienced ZERO interaction, so it's clearly more an issue with the antenna choices than the separation. Barry, W5GN I have a Force 12 C3 and XM24
I dug out an EZ-Way tower in 1977, using a hand shovel, water hose for our Texas soil, and a wheeled auto engine hoist, in about two hours. I hand dug, with a Texas Pole Shovel, the hole for its new
And if anyone can use both DB-25 or Centronics-36 pin printer switch boxes, for your tower project, I've got several-to-many to give away. Barry, W5GN One thought, there are still available Parallel
In Dallas, I was cited because my antennas not only exceeded the setback, (the tower was 10 feet from the property line), but both the OB16-3 and CalAV 2El 40 elements extended many feet over the adj
"Couldn't you just re-deed re-record the two lots into one?" We had discussed that "option" but it's not possible, for several reasons, but especially in Dallas where most of the housing is late-20th
My experience is quite different. With either standoffs or a single support at the top, lowering the tower when there was much wind would frequently push the slack coax into the tower sections, requi
I guess if you have truly stiff coax, that can not bend, then how can you lower the tower? Won't it hold up the tower? J I've only experienced the problem when lowering the tower and I had a cluster