Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 04:30:30 PDT From: Ham-Ant Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Ant-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Ant@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Ant Digest V94 #198 To: Ham-Ant Ham-Ant Digest Fri, 24 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 198 Today's Topics: 5 Band HF Antenna for sale Antenna Tower Erecti Scotchkote or Super88 Suppliers? Wanted -- Cheap, Easy Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Ant Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-ant". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 09:56:33 -0400 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!gopher.sdsc.edu!acsc.com!wp-sp.nba.trw.com!gatekeeper.esl.com!m21009.esl.com!user@network.ucsd.edu Subject: 5 Band HF Antenna for sale To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu I have qty of 7 of these 5 band HF antennas I need to sell. They are the Maldol VK5Jr as seen at Dayton. They cover 80/40/20/15/10, and have ground radials with traps for those of us with limited space. Spec sheets available upon request with photo. It can be mast mounted. All are NIB. They list for $399.99 I'am selling them for $325 + shipping. Call for more info: Doug Huston 408-738-2888x5825 days 408 274-7396 eves (Calif time) or e-mail to Doug_Huston@smtp.esl.com 73's Maldol USA is now located in Seattle, WA 206-525-1896, ads in 73 and QST. -- COMMENTS ARE MINE AND NOT RELATED TO ESL. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 14:32:44 GMT From: netcomsv!netcom.com!dgf@decwrl.dec.com Subject: Antenna Tower Erecti To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu In article <93.948.7581.0NFB2A3E@woodybbs.com> nathan.odle@woodybbs.com (Nathan Odle) writes: >R>Message-ID: <2u10q7$5hm@ccnet.ccnet.com> >R>Newsgroup: rec.radio.amateur.antenna >R>Organization: home in the cAVe hanging on for dear life > >R>Robert F. Enenkel (enenkel@cs.toronto.edu) wrote: >R>: Can anyone tell me how one goes about erecting an antenna tower? > My father and I just finished erecting a 75ft. Rohn 45G guyed >tower...one thing I wanted to add to this conversation is that it might >be nice to have 2 men on the tower. Also, make sure you have 2 men on I would add that it would be helpful to pre-test each section on the ground to make sure they can be mated easily; I put up a short 30 ft 25G tower and discovered to my horror that one of the section's legs was slightly off alignment with it's mate, requiring some tactical structural re- implementation (we used a board and a hammer and smashed the hell out of it until things mated up - fortunately it's a very lightly loaded tower!) The irritating thing is the out-of-alignment section was the only NEW section amongst others that were used but it was too late by 5 years to return it to the vendor. Dave ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 94 14:50:31 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: Scotchkote or Super88 Suppliers? To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu >The stock Diamond weatherproofing definately isn't enough. I use >Scotch Super88 and Scotchkote to seal them up. Also seal up the tip - >I've had one antenna where the metal cap actually blew away in the wind... I can't find Scotchkote locally here in NEw Jersey. Does anyone know of a national mailorder house that carries this stuff. I hear it works very well in protecting cable splices from the elements. Thanx... .............................................................................. 73 de Walt Kornienko - K2WK Frankford Radio Club Internet: waltk@pica.army.mil Snail: RR1 Box 919, Lafayette, NJ 07848 DX PacketCluster: K2WK > W2JT Packet: K2WK@NX2P.NJ.USA.NOAM "Nobody loves me but my mother & she could be jivin' too..." -B.B King ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 21:24:00 -0500 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!wwswinc!les.turner@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Wanted -- Cheap, Easy To: ham-ant@ucsd.edu JD>D>Message-ID: JD>Newsgroup: rec.radio.amateur.antenna JD>Organization: Northern Telecom, Network Application Systems JD>In article <2u3nq9$caj@sophia.inria.fr>, JD>Jan-Martin Hertzsch wrote: JD>>How about a HB9CV ? JD>>Last Xmas I built one from several pieces of old aluminium, copper wire JD>>an old trimmer 10 ... 20 pF, and a piece of thin ethernet coax JD>>following a plan published in an old electronics yearbook JD>>(Elektronik-Jahrbuch 1974, Berlin, ex-GDR). JD>What's a HB9CV? JD>>gl & 73 de F/DG0LFH JD>>Jan-Martin JD>Thanks...Jim JD>N2VNO You might try a 5 element cubical quad.... I use one, and love it... very directional, with good signal rejection on the sides..... I have a plan of it if you are interested. Les Turner KB7SSE 1:105/313 * SLMR 2.1a * --T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E-- --- JCQWK * Origin: The Modem Medium BBS - 503-640-8732 - (1:105/313) ------------------------------ End of Ham-Ant Digest V94 #198 ******************************