where are you?


wrote in message
...
I cannot get any help from the HAM elists in Houston, TX so... thought
that I
would try this venue and maybe someone from Houston will read this and not
mind
doing a little elmering.

Anyway...


Is there any chance of getting some help on putting up a 25G??
I need to know sources and supplies, etc and methods etc for setting up
my shack. but concentrating on the Tower first.

I am a 61yr old Tech license - finally got around to doing it after
starting the
first time in 1951... theory was never a problem, just the damned code.
That is still the problem especially with all the morphine I take for
tumor
pain.

I have about 50' of tower, a VX7R, an IC-736, an AlfaDelta 40m dipole and
about
4.5' of a section of tower sticking out of a 3' diam hole filled with
concrete.
got the ground rods, etc just need to know where to get what kind of
materials
to connect the rods to the tower legs and how to do it.

Also, where to get 2"od .25" wall aluminium tube/pipe for a gin pole and
for a
mast

And how to fix the legs of the sections so that they go together - the
slip
joints don't .. slip, that is.

yada...

I have read this
http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/qsl-tower-assembly4.htm
but it seems to be old, and written in French and then translated.

isfaik, strap copper is no longer recommended for ground rod to tower leg
or to
a single point copper bulkhead.

I have GOT to find that blue covered Antenna Handbook!! It is buried
around
here somewhere

sigh..

thanks
chas


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Charles L Hamilton, Houston, TX
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