Rich/W4RJA,

I've never had or seen any bug issue around the ground lights. But then the flagpole (on my homesite) is almost 80' from the house. This picture is pre-landscaping, and pre-house next door. The picture does show the "Ground Screen", remote tuner, DX-Engineering Tilt-over, and the 4 ground lights.

73,

Rich, ND4G


------ Original Message ------
From "George Briggs" <[email protected]>
To "Larry Sheridan" <[email protected]>
Cc "villages reflector" <[email protected]>
Date 11/11/2022 1:52:02 PM
Subject Re: [TVARC] flagpole damage

I also ran a wire pair in the conduit next to the coax. I put it there if I ever want to use a remote tuner without running the 12v on the coax. It bailed me out a couple of years ago when my MFJ remote tuner went belly up. I hauled out my trusty SGC tuner, and it worked like a champ. I’m not sure why we are all in love with 12v over the coax.
George K2DM 

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 11, 2022, at 1:43 PM, Larry Sheridan <[email protected]> wrote:



Rich: great idea on adding a light wire to the coax conduit, I'm stealing that idea!

Larry K4LES

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:47 AM Rich Antolick <[email protected]> wrote:

The top light I used did a good job but I also have a Villages street lamp as I’m on a corner lot but that alone is not proper flag lighting.  The issue I’ve heard from people with ground up lighting is they seem to attract many more bugs.  When I put in my flagpole I did run a 12 gauge pair for DC power to support ground lighting.  Any input on bugs around your ground light?

 

Thanks,

Rich

W4RJA

 

From: Rich Erlichman <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 11:15 AM
To: Rich Antolick <[email protected]>
Cc: villages reflector <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TVARC] flagpole damage

 

I never liked the light on top. It just doesn’t light up enough. Possibly because it is too close to the flag and (my opinion) does not do it justice. I found on Amazon some amazing lights that you ground mount around the base of the flagpole pointed up and it makes the flag look great at night. 
73, Rich, nd4g 

Sent from my iPhone 13 Pro



On Nov 11, 2022, at 8:21 AM, Rich Antolick <[email protected]> wrote:



My Greyline flagpole made it through both storms without issue.  I did take the flag off for the high wind days.

 

On another topic my flagpole light died a week or so before Nicole just less than 3 years old.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008IOZNJI?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Is that typical or do you have a solar flag light that had better longevity?

 

Rich

W4RJA

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Ellis
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 8:55 PM
To: villages reflector <[email protected]>
Subject: [TVARC] flagpole damage

 

GA folks, 

 

Hope everyone did okay during Nicole, 

it could have been much worse! 

 

Just out of curiosity, has anyone who 

has used a flagpole for an antenna, 

suffer any significant storm damage? 

If so, it might be helpful to future users,

to know what are potential trouble spots, 

to know what failed, how and/or why it 

failed, construction details, etc. 

 

Since the flagpole is such a popular antenna 

here, it would be nice to offer some thoughts

to new users based on the experience of 

others. 

 

73, 

John, NP2B 

 

 

--

 

John Ellis         (NP2B)  

1149 Mockingbird Lane  
The Villages, FL 32163  

telephone 352 633-2910  
facsimile  352 633-0401
mobile     340 513-4928  

______________________________________________________________
TVARC mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/tvarc
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html

______________________________________________________________
TVARC mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/tvarc
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
______________________________________________________________
TVARC mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/tvarc
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html