Steve: My XYL Cheryl (WY5H) was watching HGTV (Home and Garden Channel) on cable a couple days ago and the program was about outdoor lighting, and flower bed sprinkler systems, etc. and it showed a m
Fellow tower talkians: I also used a similar procedure to Bill's. When I installed my first Rohn 25 tower after digging the hole and putting in a layer of pea gravel/river rock on the bottom for drai
Joe: It comes in colors besides Black. I saw it in red and blue at one store and actually had to hunt for it in black. I've sealed several outside connections with it that have lasted for years with
Fellow Tower Talkians: I have recently purchased a nearly new still in the box Telrex TB6EM (I knew the owner) in so far pristine condition. It still has the original coating material as it came from
Dana: I don't have a U.S. Tower, but do have TriEx WT51 crankup. I took some (galvanized?) stiff small mesh screen wire I got at a building supply store, some call it "hog wire" or "chicken wire", an
Fellow Tower Talkians: I recently obtained a used bu in excellent shape Telrex TB6EM and want to put it on the same mast as a small WARC 12 & 17m beam, probably a 2 or 3 element Mosley or Cushcraft.
I also use the Phillystran 1200 on a Mosley Classic 33 WARC with the 40m kit. Mosley supplies Dacron rope with the 40m kit for support and side to side stabilization, but the Phillystran had a lower
Fellow Tower Talkers: Miracles never cease with homeowners associations. A ham friend of mine who lives in South Texas in a deed restricted development has actually gotten APPROVAL from his homeowner
Jim: It appears to be a TA33jr. if it has the 12 foot boom as you described. I believe the higher powered TA33 had a 14 ft. boom. The instruction "manual" is only 2 pages and if you need one I could
Fellow TowerTalkians: A friend of mine near Houston WB5IUU Robert Mennell, (bmennell@ev1.net) has a Telrex TB4EC he is trying to locate spare parts for to repair his beam. If anyone has a TB4EC they
George: http://www.w5fc.org/ The above is the link to the Dallas Amateur Radio Club (W5FC) which has a comms van. I'm sure they can help you. Their van was seen a couple times in "Fire and Rain" the
Fellow tower talkians: http://www.hgtv.com/HGTV/episode/0,1101,BDRE_episode_17205,00.html This has nothing to do with an antenna or tower, but for an interesting view of how a homeowner's association
Jim: When I was a newspaper reporter in the 1980s covering the Fort Worth TX police and fire departments, I wrote several stories each time a new UBC or UFC came out because Fort Worth added a lot of
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/states/texas/arlington/3387154.htm With all the recent postings about deed restrictions, HOA's etc. here is a related story from Sunday's Fort Worth TX
Sherman: MFJ had one on display at Ham Com 2002 in Arlington TX last weekend. They looked very interesting. I had MFJ President, Martin F. Jue demonstrate it to me personally since I had bought a cou
Steve: If W3PT's tower is like my TriEx the problem is in the Fulton winch. The Fulton winch supplied with the tower and in 1992 and since replaced has a disc brake system to hold the sections up. Wh
Marty: The one I have was made out of painted sheet metal by "Lambda Vector Corp." it has a half dozen rubber grometted holes for coax, rotor cable, etc. pass through. I had a ham friend about 10 yea
Alan: I don't know about your locality, but when I put up a 50 foot crank up in 1993 I asked the city's code compliance officer (his son is a ham) and he said no permit or any type was required. But
AL: When my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and I lived at our former QTH in the late 1980s in Bedford TX I put up 40 ft. of Rohn 25, but before I did I wrote the mayor and asked him if there were ANY height or ot