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41. [TowerTalk] Wire Antennas (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:35:59 -0700; HI Bill. I think the B@W antenna had some kind of resistor to match it and made it essentially a big dummy load. The Alpha Delta is a better antenna. 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00313.html (7,428 bytes)
42. [TowerTalk] Vertical Radials (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:30:33 -0700; HI Rod A friend of mine here, W7IVX, put a HF2V on top of a barn with a metal roof and it played real well. You have to make sure the panels are all bonded together with jumpers. It is a good grounp; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00433.html (7,867 bytes)
43. [TowerTalk] How bend aluminum tubing (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:25:57 -0700; HI Steve. Take it to your electrical supply house. They have a jig for bending conduit that will bend it. 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertal; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00464.html (8,581 bytes)
44. [TowerTalk] Plastic Owls (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:32:30 -0700; Just don't use a Spotted Owl or you will have the FBI, EPA, DEQ, CIA, State police and whoever else investigating your tower and you may never be able to use it again :-) Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: htt; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00465.html (8,203 bytes)
45. [TowerTalk] waterproof enclosures? (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:39:16 -0700; Hi Barry. Those Tupperware boxes work good and last a long time. 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests:; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00466.html (8,081 bytes)
46. [TowerTalk] aluminum joint preparation (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:58:39 -0700; Hi All. This is an interesting question. I came into a bunch of old KLM Big Stickers that had blown down. The aluminum came in very handy for antenna projects, but it was impossible to get the sectio; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00553.html (8,589 bytes)
47. [TowerTalk] 20 meter SWR (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:38:17 -0700; Hi all After getting the station back together, I have found something wierd, the SWR on the 20 meter antenna (home-brew 3 el 20 on 18 foot boom). It used to have a pretty good 2 to 1 bandwidth, but; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00639.html (7,385 bytes)
48. [TowerTalk] Flat top vs Inv Vee (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:24:36 -0700; Hi Tom. Another thing we have to figure on is that if you have 2 160 foot towers, the antenna will probably be about 140 feet up at the center as 150-200 feet of RG-8 is pretty heavy and there is bou; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00678.html (8,813 bytes)
49. [TowerTalk] tuning the beam (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:14:35 -0700; HI Joe. It just goes to show ya, "When in doubt, read the manual" :-) 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requ; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00709.html (7,800 bytes)
50. [TowerTalk] hitch-hiking (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:24:26 -0700; I can't think think of ANY reason to climb a tower without a safety belt. My tower is only about 35 feet tall and I won't go up it without a belt. I would like to know the statistics on how many peop; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00778.html (8,420 bytes)
51. [TowerTalk] Soldering Iron Problem's (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:21:34 -0700; HI All Today I was trying to solder some connectors on some cables for a two meter antenna. It seems like everytime I pick up the soldering gun to use it, it doesn't work right. I have to take some p; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00829.html (8,941 bytes)
52. [TowerTalk] Corrections to Mismatch Rebutal (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:50:44 -0700; Then you would have a LASER. Talk about narrow beamwidth!!! Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towerta; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00832.html (7,921 bytes)
53. [TowerTalk] Soldering Gun Problem (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:50:06 -0700; Hi Gang Well I never thought so many guys had the same problem. It seems to be the Weller is the culprit. I would think if someone is contemplating getting a new soldering gun, the best thing would b; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00840.html (6,906 bytes)
54. [TowerTalk] TH-6 to TH-3 (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:12:08 -0700; HI all Last night I was talking to a friend, NO7F/KL7, and he was wondering about changing a TH-6 to a TH-3. He's on Unalaska Island, and the winds get up to 160 MPH there and he thinks he would be b; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00871.html (7,191 bytes)
55. [TowerTalk] Cage Antennas (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:28:34 -0700; Hi Lee. I had a cage vertical here for 80 meters and it worked very well. There were 2 trees about 40 feet apart, and I stretched a rope between them and hung the vertical from that. It had 4 wires i; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00872.html (8,060 bytes)
56. [TowerTalk] Cage Antennas (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 03:30:19 -0700; Hi Jim. That's been done. In fact it was written up in CQ magazine. I forgot who wrote the article, but he wired up a tree to look like the cage vertical that N7DF used to have. He said it worked gre; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00896.html (8,128 bytes)
57. [TowerTalk] Looking for Ham IV rotor repair company (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:22:35 -0700; HI Stokely Check out this site http://www.rotordoc.com/ 73 Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertal; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00908.html (8,305 bytes)
58. [TowerTalk] Cage Antennas (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:33:51 -0700; Well, for one thing, it keeps me warm in Winter :-) Tom W7WHY -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUE; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-08/msg00910.html (7,584 bytes)
59. [TowerTalk] Re: resonance (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 20:32:09 -0700; HI Pete. That's how I tune the antennas here. I have some jumpers, and when I work 20 cw, I add the jumper and it lowers the "resonant" frequency down to 14.030. Keeps the exciter and amp happy!! 73; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-07/msg00213.html (8,512 bytes)
60. [TowerTalk] toroids (score: 1): Author: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne); Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 16:10:30 -0700; Hi All I recently came into some 88 mh toroids that were in some old telephones. The inner diamater is a little bigger than RG-8 coax. Does anyone know the permability (sp?) of these cores, and will; /archives//html/Towertalk/1998-07/msg00252.html (6,742 bytes)

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