Have had a three element tri-band Gem Quad up for twenty years and fed with single feedline. Has anyone done the work on feeding each driven element separately? Would appreciate any information on co
I went out to the local national weather service office at the airport and talked them out of one for field day. And by the way they work pretty good. Used it on 75/80 meters this past field day. Van
A type of firm that uses this material on a regular basis, and easy to contact would be a company in your community that installs pole type ID signs you will find in your town at motels, service stat
Hi Danny. Have only a few minutes but wanted to reply to your question. Somewhere in the deep dark past comments have been made that on hf bands the swr is not as important as many would have you bel
I use old cooking oil myself. Usually have taken recycled cooking oil I deep fried fish cakes in. When it starts to smell up the shack I let the dummy load cool off and the smell goes away with time.
cell companies will sometimes install a tower on your property, pay all the costs and then sign a rental (lease) agreement to pay you a lease fee over a five year period with options for additional p
Had a radio works B1-k4 current balun go belly up for no apparent reason. Although it is supposed to be "potted" mine was not. Made with standard PVC pipe/fittings so cut apart. Found a bad connectio
John, my two cents. Over the years on RTTY I used an NCL-2000 at 600 watts out no problems...3 - 4 db down from 1500 watts out. For many years used Amp Supply linears called LK-550. Had two of them b
Well, the HEX beam. I used it a couple of contests ago to put spells on some of the contesters I don't like. It seemed to work! They all had penalty points taken off that year. Van, K7VS Medford, Ore
Dale. I have a couple of cell towers on mountain tops in Southern Oregon and most of the freqs they use are up around 1.9 gigs. Also have a couple of 2 meter ham repeaters operating at the two sites
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Since there is a rather significant difference in new price of 55 vs 65 I thought I would pass along my experience with Rohn 55. On one of my communication sites I have two hundred feet of 55 guyed a
Well in deference to K5RC and the other comments think I will put in my two cents worth on this subject, Tom. After the times you helped me work on my antennas when I lived on the coast thought you w
Stu. You are absolutly correct. A city can certainly inact an ordinance with "look back" control and cities frequently do this. Stan, should talk to the local city attorney. A good example are the ma
Hi Art. Was somewhat intrigued by your efforts. I have been running both two and three element quads for some thirty years now. Have stayed with the Gem Quad due to their spider spreader system that
As the Americans say you did a very transparent job of venting your spleen. I hope you feel better now that you have chastised someone on the reflector. Let us now get back to exchanging and sharing
Has anyone had a problem with the T2X rotator sort of sticking when you try to rotate it. Try to rotate in one direction and nothing happens and then the other way and it moves so I then let it stop