Another place to look for the flooded or adhesive lined heat shrink is ship and fishing fleet outfitters. We purchased our heat shrink at Englund Marine (who have stores/rigging shops at several fish
Agree on the use of quality trailer connectors. Here on the beach one set for a T2X served faithfully for 11 years in a harsh salt air and wet environment. The salt air eventually got to it but it to
First off, let me state that the nearest nearly serious electronics parts store is a couple hours plus drive from our place, albeit there are a couple of small RS's (who never have what I need and al
Amen, nothing fails here except when in the middle of rain and wind storm which luckily only occurs between 1 January and 31 December. Chipping the salt out of the screw head drives isn't easy either
I can't think of anyone I know who works FD's and contests (multiop) who has not gone to the use of PP's. Cinch-Jones, Molex and automotive connectors may have their place but PP better covers my nee
John, I've two beams (a TH7DXX and A3WS on my HG-70HD plus a 16 foot 2M monopole). I lay the tower over till the reflector of the TH7DXX is just off the ground. I supplement the layover fixture doubl
Which brings a question to mind. Why is there not available for sale a decent battery powered soldering iron. Sure would be nice when in the air not to be tied to an AC power cord. I did a search (pr
Ian, Yes, I believe the name Scope was on the soldering unit I saw. The unit, however, was not black, more an orange. It was about the size of an old Weller soldering gun and had the typical pistol g
FWIW I found this. Weller PSI100K Butane 90 min run time 125W at tip adj Portasol Super Pro Butane 90 min run time 125 W at tip adj I found a Scope but it is probably OK for wiring on a tower but wou
Two pretty strong statements. I'm sure the folks at the marine fleet electronics repair shops I've visited along the coast here in Orygun, who seem to be unaware that they are 'forbidden' to solder R
Missed that one Ian. Serious looking tool and will probe a little more with them. From a first glance it seems to be the better of the lot. Saw the "Heavy gauge wires and ground rods". Maybe I'll sen
I certainly respect your opinion and sharing of others thoughts, Bill, but you didn't state it as such. 'Forbidden' is probably not the word you meant? All need to be careful to ensure what we are es
Interesting job! Note the tower and yagi! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTDQbRCwV4 Don W7WLL _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTal
I am sitting here peering into the BN-86 from my TH7DXX, just opened it awhile back. Two of the coil windings burned near the connector end. The swaged connection to the connector flange totally corr
Tektronix used nichrome coax for many of its passive probes, the almost perfect lossy cable! Pretty small coax though!! I would believe other probe mfrs used it too. Don W7WLL How about maybe in a un
Dang! Don't 'cha you just love what science brings to our everyday table. Sixty years of hamming and I never knew my old eyeballing of my yagi's were so imprecise, ashamed! Must be way I couldn't bre
Here! Hear! But interesting nevertheless. Always something to learn. And my bow out on this subject - check out what sat your sat dish is pointed at and go figure from there. http://www.dishpointer.c
Wife suggested giving the compass to Goodwill and buying a dog. Smart alec. Been there done that, retired the scooper. Kidding aside, sometimes where we have the yagi pointed is important. A few or m
Makes me think of the guys and gals with rotating towers, no rotators and solidly fixed yagis. Wonder how accurate the pointing is with these towere compared to we with sloppy rotator gearing and oth
My Mazda RX-8 has a rotor, my tower has a rotator. My plumber has a rotor rooter!! Do I turn (or rotate?) an antenna (or an aerial)? I suspect aerial came first. How did it transform into what we com