I use crimp and traditional clamp type of connectors. I have a question on the proper way or technique that should be used to solder the center pin of N, BNC, and SMA style connectors onto the coax c
GM Dick and Martin and TU for the replies. I will not talk about PL-259's as they are not an issue for me (as stated in my OP). Also I must apologize for the 2nd post this AM. I thought my OP last ni
Fred, I use 0.031" solder right now......should I be using smaller diameter for the tiny weep hole? Gedas, W8BYA Gallery at http://w8bya.com Light travels faster than sound.... This is why some peopl
I wonder if the original designers did that to lower the Q and make the antenna SWR BW greater with just a slight loss in gain/efficiency. I know mine was usable over most of the band. Gedas, W8BYA G
Not sure if this will help or not but have a look: https://www.okdxf.eu/files/AntenaForce12.pdf Gedas, W8BYA Gallery at http://w8bya.com Light travels faster than sound.... This is why some people ap
I beg forgiveness for not keeping up on this but was there not some talk several months ago about a radical new requirement that all towers over even a modest height of around 50' or so be marked wit
Thank you everyone for the online and offline replies. I will give this a good look over today. My concern is heightened because I live about 6 miles south of Ft Wayne Int airport and also the air na
"The new FAA regulations, implemented in the summer of 2019 now require that the only towers less than 200 feet tall that have to be painted and lighted are/meteorological aids and those within the g
And just to muddy the water a little more, 10,000 people in what kind of area? 20 sq-mi? 50 sq-mi? Gedas, W8BYA Gallery at http://w8bya.com Light travels faster than sound.... This is why some people
I have a couple extra NOS Amphenol, male-C to female-N connector adapters if that will help. Gedas, W8BYA Gallery at http://w8bya.com Light travels faster than sound.... This is why some people appea
I am trying to figure out the best knot to use to tie two ends of 3/16" Dacron rope together such that when I am left the two ends will not come apart, and will leave me a loop to work with so I can
Thank you Jim, Dave, Charlie, and Charles. Looks like a great site ! A number of people have suggested a Bowline but when I did a search on that site it shows at least 6 of them hi-hi......From what
Hi Jim. Yes I think you understand what I am after. To me one or two loops would be fine. Two might even be better as it may be stronger when the wire antenna end that will be attached to that loop e
I really appreciate all the wonderful suggestions from so many ops both direct & via the group. The joining of two ropes part is easy (even for me).....my main concern was ending up with a loop to wo
Hi Wes and TU. I am not sure I am positive what you mean by only a load on the upper side of the knot. I am going to have two pulleys, one at the top of the tower and one at the bottom. I am going to
I was wondering if anyone was going to ask that :-) In the past what I have been doing is making a temporary loop (you know the kind that if you pull on the ends with nothing inside the loop, the loo
I am hoping that I will never have to worry about the "loose end" of my rope ever getting loose and coming off the top pulley requiring me to tilt over my tower to re-thread the rope thru the pulley.
GM Wes and happy thanksgiving ! Surprisingly when the rope (knot portion with antenna) is hoisted up and the antenna pulled tight that still tightens up those vertical ropes. Do you remember that pro
I should have also added that I will never have to worry about a gob of rope (70' of it) that becomes excess and just sits on the ground when the "antenna wire" is hoisted up in the air. If I wasn't
Hi Steve and happy thanksgiving to you and yours as well. You got everything spot on but (possibly) missed one very important requirement. I think you knew it but did not mention it. I wanted to join