- 161. [Fwd: [TowerTalk] Merry Christmas] (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 18:40:49 +0800
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --55514EAE5C1B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hmmmmm, for some reason this E-mail went out with out the messag
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00617.html (8,604 bytes)
- 162. [TowerTalk] baluns and wire antenna (kinda long again) (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 01:24:32 +0800
- Hi Henry. Unless your inverted v is up at least 120 feet or so, it doesn't matter what direction you have it oriented as all the rf is going straight up anyway. 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00695.html (7,611 bytes)
- 163. [TowerTalk] manuals (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 01:33:32 +0800
- Hi All. Some of you were asking about manuals. Here's a good place to look for them http://www.sarrio.com/sarrio/rsman1.html 73 and Hapy New Year Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00696.html (6,775 bytes)
- 164. [TowerTalk] Does the JPS ANC-4 work? (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 01:47:16 +0800
- Hi Charles. You had a lot more success with the FCC threat than I did here. Channel 18 is right in the middle of the 2 meter ham band here and all over town we have problems with hams getting into it
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00737.html (8,472 bytes)
- 165. [TowerTalk] WARC antennas (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 01:09:41 +0800
- stuck a 130 foot one up in a tree next to the shack and it's dedicated to the WARC's. Works great!! 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@cont
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00023.html (8,017 bytes)
- 166. [TowerTalk] Unterminated Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 03:20:15 +0800
- Hi Charles. I had a 300 foot beverage out here a couple of years ago, with the far end grounded (no resistor). I built a little tuner in the shack and used it to tune the beverage and it worked real
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00045.html (7,628 bytes)
- 167. [TowerTalk] HF beam against the wind. (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:40:29 +0800
- Even a weather vane has a point of least resistance. Have you ever seen a weather vane with the pointed arrow part pointing into the wind? Tom -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.ht
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00215.html (9,144 bytes)
- 168. [TowerTalk] T2X ,SS and Murphy (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:43:51 +0800
- Hi. For a while I worked in a heavy equipment shop here, and our boss never would let us put lock washers on any nuts and bolts unless they were of a very good grade. If you put the cheap steel lockw
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00252.html (7,408 bytes)
- 169. [TowerTalk] Toroids (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 01:30:18 +0800
- Hi all. I came into a bunch of toroids (cheap), and I have no idea what they are. They are in two pieces, and each piece looks like a capital "E". They go together and there is a U bolt that holds th
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00287.html (6,860 bytes)
- 170. [TowerTalk] inverted vee (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 01:18:54 +0800
- Usually the pattern becomes more broadside and the impedance goes up. The impedance of a dipole is around 72 ohms and as you drop the ends, it goes down closer to 50 ohms. With the inverted "V", the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00321.html (7,101 bytes)
- 171. [TowerTalk] Re:Rivets (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:53:27 +0800
- You gotta do that anyway dropping a hose clamp, you gotta do that anyway dropping the scredriver, you gotta do that anyway I'll bet I could pop in 4 or 5 rivets while you are tightning one hose clamp
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00366.html (8,381 bytes)
- 172. [TowerTalk] Stealth Wire Vertical (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:37:49 +0800
- Hi Tom. Been there-done that! I used a end fed zepp years back, and one night I was on 20 working some DX, and my son came in and said the tree was on fire. The feeders were touching a branch, and st
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00467.html (8,729 bytes)
- 173. [TowerTalk] Re: (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 17:35:20 +0800
- Hi Frank. I was running about 600 watts to an old TCM-2 navy transmitter. The ends of a dipole can get pretty hot too. I was working on an antenna once, and unknown to me, the 100 foot tape was layin
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00490.html (8,720 bytes)
- 174. [TowerTalk] CDR 40 rotor (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:55:16 +0800
- Howdy gang: Well, we're in the middle of a BIG wind storm (thank God for crank up towers) so I though would do some maintenance here. I took an old AR-40 rotor apart that is not working right and fou
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00537.html (7,161 bytes)
- 175. [TowerTalk] junk mail (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:19:19 +0800
- The other day some one posted a message with a reference to a rec.ham.dx or something like that. I went to see what it was and since I have been deluged with junk mail. Get rich quick scheme's etc. A
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00606.html (7,832 bytes)
- 176. [TowerTalk] KWM-2's/30L1/Hunter Bandit For Sale (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 23:37:56 +0800
- Hi Richard I sent this to you, but your E-mail address is wrong. I got it back. -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative request
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00639.html (9,537 bytes)
- 177. [TowerTalk] Kudos to RF Parts. (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:57:32 +0800
- Hi all. I bought a set of Svetlana 572-B's from RF Parts a little over a year ago, and one of them developed a grid to filament short. These tubes had been in use for most of that time. Anyway, I E-m
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00653.html (7,230 bytes)
- 178. [TowerTalk] Guyed crankup towers obsolete? (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 04:43:30 +0800
- Hi Rick. I don't know why you can't guy any crank up. I have a 40 foot crank up here and I have it guyed at the top of the bottom section and the top of the top section. I just have to be careful and
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-11/msg00703.html (8,044 bytes)
- 179. [TowerTalk] band pass filters and ICE phone # (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:23:35 +0900
- Hi Steve. Here's Dunestars' Webpage http://www.qth.com/dunestar/ I couldn't find the one for I.C.E 73 and GL Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertal
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-10/msg00033.html (7,865 bytes)
- 180. [TowerTalk] Tuned feeders. (score: 1)
- Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 00:27:25 +0900
- Hi guys. Thanks for all the replies to my questions about the tuned feeders. Now another one. The antenna I put up is a 130 foot dipole fed with twin lead. It works great on the WARC bands and 10 met
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-10/msg00148.html (7,343 bytes)
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