I bought a gallon of phosphoric acid to remove the rust, figuring that even if I don't use it myself it will be easier to sell/unload if it looks a little better. Once it's been cleaned up, I'll paint it and replace the cable as well.
I bought a gallon of phosphoric acid to remove the rust, figuring that even if I don't use it myself it will be easier to sell/unload if it looks a little better. Once it's been cleaned up, I'll paint it and replace the cable as well.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Carl, if you use it yourself DO NOT GUY IT. It's designed to be self-supporting. Putting guys on it VASTLY increases the strain on the tower, especially the cable. A buddy of mine in Chula Vista had one for years, and it had no trouble at all supporting a TH-6.
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TOWER QUESTION! My property is on a hilltop, so I pretty much have a 360 degree view all the way down to the 0 degree horizon. However I have a lot of 60 to 80 ft oak trees surrounding and on my property. If I wanted to put up a tower, can I get away with a 35 ft tower, or do I need to go over top of the trees to be effective (100 ft)? I assume the trees might attenuate my signal enough to make it a lost cause for a high gain antenna.
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My understanding is that trees don't typically attenuate signals below 30MHz all that much.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Pine tree sap in the needles messes with RF a bit more, but yea.
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Doug, the guy who owned it before told me that it was intended to be guyed. In any case, I've decided not to use it for a couple of reasons, the big one being that I can't positively identify the tower make or model so I can't find the engineering data I need to obtain a permit. I'm also a little concerned about the overall condition of the tower; a 50-plus foot tower is potentially a very large liability and if I erect one, I want to cross all my "T"s and dot all my "I"s. I'm thinking instead of just using the very bottom 22-foot section for either my 10m Moxon or for my 6m and 2m verticals.Originally Posted by W5GA
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
They will if they fall on the transmitter.
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Especially if the operator is there at the time.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Permits??? Weeeee don't need no steeeeeenkin permits!!!!
Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.
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