[SixClub] Now here's a tower and rotator (UPDATED)

[Chris Boone]

Go with helically wrapped copper strips on fiberglass elements...makes them
shorter and lighter and easier to handle (We had one at my college station
at Lamar Univ, Beaumont...W5PXZ iirc was the callsign....A Drake C line into
L4B amp and into the 40m 2 elements beam really opened up the band...a
German student used the station to talk to his folks (licensed) back in West
Germany...NEVER missed a QSO :) The club died a slow death because the
trustee (EE Prof) would not keep his hands out of the gear and if he screwed
something up, it never got fixed...one student blew the L4 PS when he tried
to load it on 20 with the bandswitch on 40!!! The prof modified the XMT VFO
for direct FSK...and in xcv, it was always off freq by 50+ Hz...we could run
split OR xcv on the R4C VFO...and finally worked RTTY by feeding the ST-6000
into the MIC jack on SSB. The club president and I hid the QSL cards we got
during the CQ RTTY WW contest...and hid the simple audio cable
connection.....we could NEVER get the prof to do anything (which is why the
club died)

Chris
WB5ITT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sixclub-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sixclub-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard J. Fiero II W5TFW
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 8:24 PM
> To: World Wide Six Meter Club
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Now here's a tower and rotator (UPDATED)
> 
> anyone have a 40 meter Yagi in a corner that needs a GOOD home ?
> 
>   I am thinking about building one  and I would like to use ssome TRAPS to
> shorten the length a bit since I have a few BOXES  of them.
> 
> 
>              Joey
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Boone" <Cboone at earthlink.net>
> To: "'World Wide Six Meter Club'" <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 8:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Now here's a tower and rotator (UPDATED)
> 
> 
> > Yep...at night....Painting it red and white makes it legal during the
> > day...at night its either red beacon at the top and side lamps half way
> > down
> > (as the tower looked 200 or so feet high)  OR one white strobe at the
top
> > in
> > night mode OR red strobe (actually white strobe burning longer and a red
> > filter around the strobe) and side lamps. You can tell the difference
> > between red lamps and red strobes by the way they go on and
> off....strobes
> > is ON then OFF...no fade out/in...the lamps build up to full brilliance
> > and
> > then when they go off, they fade to dark.,....
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: sixclub-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sixclub-
> >> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Howard Bingham
> >> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 8:05 PM
> >> To: sixclub at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Now here's a tower and rotator (UPDATED)
> >>
> >> Wouldn't a tower that high require flashing light per FAA..?
> >>
> >> Sure wouldn't want to have to climb that tower.. ;-)
> >>
> >> 73
> >>
> >> Howard
> >> KE5APJ
> >>
> >> -------
> >> On 10/25/2010 7:06 PM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> >> > BTW there's a 7L 6-meter Yagi some where among all those antennas.
> >> >
> >> > 73
> >> >
> >> > Roger (K8RI)
> >> >
> >> > On 10/25/2010 7:53 PM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> >> >> Now with photos of the complete tower and antennas. Courtesy of
> >> photos
> >> >> from Joe (W8DCQ)
> >> >>
> >> >> 73
> >> >>
> >> >> Roger (K8RI)
> >> >>
> >> >> On 10/24/2010 10:17 PM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> >> >>> On 10/24/2010 9:56 PM, doc at kd4e.com wrote:
> >> >>>> I seem to recall from psych classes that Freud has something
> >> >>>> to say about that ...  ;-)
> >> >>> Freud, like many of the "old masters" was a dirty old man.<:-))
> >> >>> OTOH things I studied in grade school they now feel the need to
> > protect
> >> >>> high school students from.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 73
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Roger (K8RI)
> >> >>>> Just kidding!
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Now this is not quite the average tower and rotator.
> >> >>>>> http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/skyhook.htm
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> 73
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Roger (K8RI)
> >>
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