I have a forty meter two element cushcraft beam on 160 foot Rohn 45 tower, newly mounted. It checked using an MFJ 259 at 1.1 to 1 at 7.100 mhz on the ground at ten feet on a test tower. Now after rai
Hello everyone, Thank you all for your responses on the problem. It must have been a bad reading to the MFJ by broadcast stations. We checked the antenna today and it did check out fine with a rig an
Hello All, I have a question about the amount of downward pressure that a rotor should have on it. I have heard before that you do want some pressure on the bigger rotors? Is this true? I have a tail
Hello, I have read the postings on drilling Chrome moly and wonder if anyone has thought about having a bead of weld put down both sides of the mast that will go into the rotor mount and help keep it
I am in the process of erecting a rohn 45 tower and wonder which would be suggested to use on guy wires. I am breaking the wires up with insulators to break up from the tower. Also would like suggest
Hello, Thanks for all the input and posts on guys and materials. I will go over all material carefully and try to determine the best plan and go forward. My E-mail server has been down for a week, so
I have used one for two years and no problems, I also have a 5 postion that using a control cable, it works very well ,and at higher frequencies. -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq
I am needing several items for setup of 160 foot Rohn 45G tower. I would like to know of several sources for such equipment. I am aware of TowerTech and wonder if there are other such good sources ou
I would like to here suggestions on wiring the 13 pin din plug on Kenwood TS-940 accessory plug #2 for FSK. What I have so far is as follows: ( and doesn't work yet) Pin # 3 recieve audio Pin # 8 gro
Thanks for everyones help and suggestions. I now have completed this task and works fine, and a big difference on FSK recieve with the filters. Just for future reference I have wired it as follows: K
Hello , In response to antenna switches, I guess you are asking about remote type. If so I have two Ameritron one with control cable and one without that sends control thru main coax to the remote sw