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

Mon Oct 25 21:42:42 EDT 2010

 Y U K !

----- 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 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [SixClub] Now here's a tower and rotator (UPDATED)

> 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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