I've have a us towers tx 455 up for about 5 years and
and am wondering if it makes any sense to recable it
with Phillystran or something similar?

tnx for the prompt, courteous answers!!!!
really appreciate it.

73

larry
kd5foy

i have a question about feeding a 1/4 wave vertical
antenna.  what affect would a parallel resonant lc
combination feed in series with the base of the antenna
have? one could tap onto the l component to get a 1:1
swr. would the required number of radials be reduced?

i have a question about feeding a 1/4 wave vertical
antenna.  what affect would a parallel resonant lc
combination feed in series with the base of the antenna
have? one could tap onto the l component to get a 1:1
swr. would the required number of radials be reduced?

I've had a 3 element up for nearly 3 years here in
dallas, tx.  the only problems i've had wer self
induced and the squirrels gave me a problem.  It's
not cold here by any strech of the imagination but
the motors have never given a bit of trouble.  i met
john & company several years ago at hamfest in
arlington, tx and they are a very nice bunch of guys.
the few problems i have observed on the yahoo group
for steppir have always been fixed/repaired/tendedto
very quickly by john & company,

It's impedance would be quite high, so you'd have to
have some type of matching device to make it useable
to equipment that expects 50 ohms as a load value.

did you try sending email to force12 like the
page suggests by any chance?

75 watts should be safe at 5 feet. check
http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/rfsafety/

I have had a Sounds Sweet Speaker for about 2 months and
rate it as number one.  I've had a number of other external speakers and none compare.  It's big,
heavy, and perhaps ugly but sounds very, very good.

http://www.soundssweet.com/

look at Steppir Antennas.  expensive antennas but
they sure do work.  they make beams, rotatable dipoles
and verticals.  i've used their products for over
a year and have nothing but praise.  no connection
to them except for a very satisifed customer.

http://www.steppir.com/

larry
kd5foy

go to this url:
http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html

ham radio has many facets, almost to many to mention
but to name a few: talking to someone in a foreign
country(DX), telemetry(rockets, etc), moon bounce,
digital communications, meteor bounce, weather monitoring, public service.

try this url:

http://home.iae.nl/users/pe1ogf/power.htm

larry
kd5foy

go to the following url, it's in german
look for:download Antenna Calculator 1.3 für MagLoops

http://www.funklab.de/mloop.html

larry
kd5foy

I've used the 6m5x for several years.  Well built,
excellent performer, excellent gain, excellent f/b.
i'd recommend it to anybody and would buy another
with out hesitation.

check out the yankee clipper contest club.
they have a very good workup on 4 squares
for 80m - 160m

http://www.yccc.org/

larry
kd5foy