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Weather your a Old Ham or not, This board may help you get a grasp on the basics of Hydroxy cell construction....and may Not. its Primary function is to give us a Place to BS about Ham radio stuff.
So have fun !
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2009, 07:25:19 pm » |
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I love it! Now I gotta think of smething to say.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2009, 07:42:54 pm » |
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I gotta figure out what is happening with this message posting. About 10 lines in to a post my typing gets delayed and not very responsive. I don't know what it is. Maby my system is getting too hot. Has anyone else complained about this?
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2009, 09:21:58 pm » |
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Not that I remember... sounds agravateing !
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2009, 06:48:48 am » |
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I'll do a de-frag this weekend and see if that helps. Sometimes my system gets a little sluggish at other times too.
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2009, 09:48:54 pm » |
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heheh I did a de-frag about 2 weeks ago took almost 24hrs but I left it going and went to bed....
got up the next day and re started the machine and I couldn't believe how much faster the computer was !
it was like night and day ! almost 2 times as fast as it had been!
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I should make a back up of my Hard Drive too but who has 128gig capasity of back up NOW ? that would take a bunch of 640MB CD's thats for sure ! so I have resolved to backing up my real important files ONLY... I have junk on this computer I've never even looked at ! HAHAHHA its a Hudge HD and man do I ever like it... now if I could get the System memory Maxed out it might really fly !
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Tink are you running your computer on battery or an inverter ? I've often wondered what I'edpower my computer with if I had to get off the grid !
.... I'm thinking battery power is the answer but to hand craft a battery system to supply all the voltages of diferent types its hardly worth it !
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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2009, 07:54:42 am » |
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First off if you boot up in 'System configuration' then do the defrag it takes much less time since you don't have all the background stuff running. 2nd. you know now you can get a 320gig USB HD for $70 at Walmart. I have both my systems backuped on the one 320gig external hd since you can take it from system to system. It's the best backup there is. 3rd. My house is just like living on the grid except the AC is much cleaner. The trick is you have to get the best possible inverter. Outback now makes the best in my opinion. My system is built around the Xantrex SW4024 a true sinewave inverter but Outback's equivenent is even better. If you use a 'modified sinewave inverter' it will destroy your computer over a few years. Some things won't even run properly on it. I'm only running one inverter but if you run 2 inverters hooked up in parellel you can run 240 volt. that gets expensive. Don't even consider 12 volt go with at least 24volt or even better 48 volt. The inverter takes care of everything and you can even set the voltage you want for output. Don't even think about running off battery since the fluctuation of voltage from any battery would destroy a computer system. Laptops are different but then those batteries cost $150 or more to replace too. If you use a modified sinwave inverter the choppy wave is what kills sensitive electronics. It's also very important to have a battery monitor (meter) on your system so you can see at any given time what the condition of your batteries are. You gotta get a good one and you'll pay at least $150 for a decent battery monitor.
I used to be active on 2 meter years ago when I lived in the LA area. But here 2 meter is dead. No activity.I use a Discone all band antenna dfor scanning and listening to AM and FM and all that stuff. It's mounted on a25 foot tower beside my house and I can brodcast on it up to 200 watts.It's a great antenna and only costs $59 and comes with 50 foot of wire.
Tink this darn thing is slowing down again . gota go. Doing a defrag this weekend.
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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2009, 04:45:48 pm » |
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Ahh thanks for the INFO there Tink ! thats good to know!
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here at the "Ranch" when I was a Kid we lived off the grid for about 15 years
so I can make do to a certain extent without electricity.
However times have changed and so have my toys so it looks like a "True Signwave Inverter" is the only way to go !
finding one I can Afford is a whole nother story however ! HAHAHAHA
those puppies are expensive !
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We ran Generators here for a long time and finally just gave up on them and went 12vdc and charged the batteries with the car.
I learned to hate generators when I was younger hehehehhe
maybe with a GEET reactor on one it wouldn't cost too much to operate though.
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IF I can ever get caught up here at the Ranch I'll have time to do some of the things I'ed like to try here... like a wind turbine and inverter system
....a landing strip for my gyro, and build a new "Spring" for our water supply !
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My 2mtr antenna is still up a cedar tree in shingletown... and I need to get it down and put it up here... thats a chore I am not looking forward to !
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« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2009, 07:50:44 pm » |
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Bob,
I had ment to say to boot your system in 'System Mode'. That way you avoid running all that background stuff and defrag goes much faster.
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« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2009, 07:59:20 pm » |
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thanks for the Sujestion Tink...
in all my years of computering I have never hurd that one....but it makes allot of sense ! i bet it does help allot!
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2009, 01:24:13 am » |
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Bob, I spent all day de-fraging my HD. Its a 120gig and 69% free space and it took 12 hours in Safe Mode. It's been a long time since I did a defrag on this one. Sorry I was telling you System Mode, it's Safe Mode and you get there by hitting F5 while booting up. I think I'm loosing my mind. But I am still enjoying life.  Tink |
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2009, 05:57:19 am » |
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HAHAHA Actually I figured you ment "Safe mode" because I never seen anything else that would allow that sort'a thing...
so no biggy !
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My last De-frag took most of the day but I had completed about 15hrs of defragging about 2 months before that and got tired of waiting and never did get back to it...
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I have seen my computer take 2 days to complete a De-frag and that is just plane silly...
so I WILL try the "Safe Mode DE-Frag" next time I de-frag this beasty
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I worked a bit on My Motorcycle this evening, and took the shock extensions I made for the rear swing arm off and put it back in its original configuration.
I did this because of the handleing it has been showing me lately... down right
lousie ! most of the roads here have length wise Patches in them and they have been throwing me all over the road... and the bike has never done that before
I also put more air in the tires witch will probably make all the diference in the world right there as I only had about 10 p.s.i in both tires ! LOL
I put 22 in both and I expect it to ride like a cement truck !!!!!!
I drug my floor board the other day on a mild turn ( that wakes you up!)
so I figured the bike was a bit too low ! HAHAHAHAHA
we'll see if I can realy hang the cornors now or not.... hehehehe
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2009, 09:22:37 am » |
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I always reckoned that you are better off with two or three smaller hard drives than one very large item. just think of all the data you can lose if it crashes.  A stack of 40 Gig units is ideal. Having said that, I have just the one 80 gig on this machine. One of the newer tera bite drives looks attractive, but I think I'll pass on it for the above mentioned reasons. Also much quicker to de-frag a smaller drive. Manta |
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« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2009, 09:54:57 am » |
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Well, that didn't work. I tried to up load a 353kb photo and it didn't take it. I guess it really means 300kb file limit. O well here is another one at VGA mode. My antanna garden, sorry not too clear. It's the 3 homebrew wooden 43' towers supporting the Extended Horizontal Lazy H and the Discone on the 25' Lattice tower and the R7 at the end of the house. By far I get more use out of the R7. It was a good DX antenna in its day and still is. I rebuilt it once as the wind had split the main tube.
Manta, kudos, I agree. I have the 320gig USB drive I use only for backup all three of my HDs I should not have to defrag it since it only for backup, I never run anything from it.
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« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2009, 01:31:04 pm » |
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HAY Congrats Tink ya did it ! hehehehe I knew ya could figure it out if ya tried !
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Hay if you paint those wooden towers sky blue they will vurtually disapeer....
infact I had a 25ft bottom loaded hunk of water pipe with a 60ft hunk of wire on the top to the telephone pole (sort'a a inverted "L") while I was in the trailer park in Vinton,Ca. and it worked fairly well but I painted it sky blue and you could not see the silly thing
it up and disapeared...
You should tell your neighbor your going to take the towers down...then paint them and put them back up.... I bet you she won't notice their back up ! HAHAHAHAH
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seriously... my antenna realy did vanish I had top look hard for it standing in the front yard and that was less than 100ft away !....
you can get realy sneeky and paint the bottom portion thats level with the trees a green and brown splotchie color as in Camo... and then I know they won't see them... and if they don't see them they won't complain.
besides the wood will last much longer if it has paint!!!!!
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« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2009, 01:45:20 pm » |
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When I put up my horozonal 40mtr Loop I put it about 20ft off the ground is all
even though I had 100ft pine trees to hang it off of... and it worked very well
... a horozonal Loop in my view is one of the best wire antennas you can have !
they hear and radiate fantastically and do have a DB gain over a dipole at the same height and are mostly Omni directional, depending on the height above the ground.
I matched the High impedance of the loop with a 1/4 wave of 75Ohm TV coax and then just fed the TV coax with my 50Ohm antenna coax.... and I had a fairly good match
...I can't remember exactly what the match was, but as the years went on I wound up putting the MFJ Versa tuner 2 in line to match it to make the finals on the 301D happy... and when I did that I could realy get out I guess I was halfing my 100watt
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« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2009, 10:45:22 pm » |
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Actually I'm using a Penofin Penetrating Oil Finish at $95 a gallon but I get it onine for $38 and it last better than any paint. The ham who gave me the towers had them up for 6 years and when I put a new coat of that stuff on them it only took 2/3 gal for all 3 towers and I sloped it on too. This Arizona dry windy climate really eats any paint on anything. It literally shreds any tarps we use in just a matter of months. I'm planing to use this Penofin on the hard cedar wooden blades for the wind turbine I'm building. I just might paint the steel tower for the wind turbine that sky blue. Then she'll think it's a UFO and rally go berzerk. Actually she is OK, just likes to give me ar hard time. We've known each other for too many years. I trade her my sourdough bread for veggies out of her garden. I really do need to get my old SBE 1Kwatt amp hooked up. Then I could talk to those guys in the swamps down there in FL. They can't hear me with only 85-100 watts from the ic-745.
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« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2009, 10:21:32 pm » |
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tink, i think the icom is fine, mine is old , not all the bells and whistles, but u donn't need all those. Looks like u have a wicked veiw, and some altitude. We would make great neighbors,lol. Veiw here is not the greatest, but where I got the plot for the new house is phenomenal. Also the power helps but it is the gain of the antenna that really makes the diff. I did well for years with 100 watts, and seldom use amp.
U have to give me a call someday to swap war stories, same goes for u bob, i am a slow typer, and we could cover a lot more ground on land line. ph. here is 1-518-856-0152. I work 4 tens, get home 5:45 est. but I amd hard to catch, lol lot of outside work.
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« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2009, 07:32:44 am » |
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thanks for the offer Mike but I don't talk on the phone unless I absoultly have to !
I eather e-mail or txt messages...heheheh I'm getting where I lothe the telephone!
.... probably why I graviated away from ham radio years ago too... dunno why I just would rather type than talk ! HAHAHAHA
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I had a nice Ride on the bike this morning already, the wife has her lunch at 2:30am
so I went and met her at Walmart and I took her to lunch at Dennys resturant...
was fun... and I got to ride the bike which I realy do enjoy... don't get a chance to do that too often anymore... Anyhoo I got to check out the changes I made on the bike the other day and it was a big improvement in the handleing so that made me happy. that bike sure gets up and hauls, if I give it the rains... its so darn heavy though it makes for "perfect Stops" or nothing else.... at 850lbs without the saddlebags and windshield and all the other stuff on it she is HEAVY !
so I am thinking seriously of trading her in on a 750cc or maybe just maybe a triumph 750cc Bonneville...(problem there is only dealer is in Sacramento over 250miles away... )
Although I love the power and get up and GO of the 1100cc Honda Shadow, the hourndious weight penalty is really just too much! its not very agile and to me that what a bike is supposed to be !
... its not like I can go over 100mph anymore with all the CHP's out there now...<GRIN> so down grading to a lighter bike my be just the thing for me.
...maybe even a 650cc on-off road machine ...however any of them I have set on I couldn't touch the ground ! ( idiots!)
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« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2009, 10:37:15 am » |
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Bob, ....the wife has her lunch at 2:30am so I went and met her at Walmart and I took her to lunch at Dennys resturant... was fun..... So you have an all night walmart near to you.  Tink, That white dot thingy in you picture, is it the moon or one of those discsthings that keep being reported over you part of the world ? Manta |
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« Reply #20 on: July 17, 2009, 09:28:31 pm » |
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Manta,
that really is the moon. You should see the Milky Way out here. I tell the time in the evening by the big dipper. Back in the early '70's we used to sit out at night on the lawn chairs and watch the UPFs in the sky almost every night. At that time we were getting flyers from the local rancers about all the cow mutialtions. That Roswell thing happened not too far from where we had a ranch. I remember talking about it with the ranchers.
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The view is great. I'm at 6,500 feet altitude and that must help hearing all the hams all over the world. They just can't hear me, yet.
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« Reply #21 on: July 17, 2009, 10:53:11 pm » |
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Ok onthe bike ride Bob, I have an old 1987 honda goldwing with only 57,000 miles, I bought it used. I took her for a good ride today, had to get some fertilizer and lime for the garden, also had to get some water proof fuse for the fun stuff, lol. That ended up being a 100 + ride, but it was a nice one, and at 40 mpg a cheap one, lol. My bike is heavy also, and top heavy, with me on it it weighs close to 1000, and i only weigh 160 lbs, just a little guy.
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At that altitude just throw up a dipole and make sure it is oriented proper for who u want to work, even 5 watts should get u out! 73's
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« Reply #22 on: July 17, 2009, 11:01:14 pm » |
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Mike I'm still learning propigation. Sometimes I can talk with guys in Seattle and even Wisconsin. That's rare though. I can't wait for the sunspots to come back. I'm short on money right now but am interested i that old tube radio. Do you think I could use my old SBE SB2-LA Linear with it?
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« Reply #23 on: July 17, 2009, 11:07:07 pm » |
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Talk about top heavy bikes, I had a 750 Honda K model and when my girlfriend would lean the wrong way it would fall over, no way to hold it up. I couldn't even get it on the the stand that lets the rear wheel off the ground without a wedge I made out of a 6x6. When I learned how to tune the wire spoke wheels I could get it over 100mph easy. Of course I had to replace those 4 big tail pipes with a 4 into-one and add case guards to stabalize it.
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« Reply #24 on: July 17, 2009, 11:10:57 pm » |
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Tink,
I am not sure have to check on the sbe-sb2, i will research it, and sunspots are bad for like 80 meters, they work mostly for 10,15, 20, and 40,?
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« Reply #25 on: July 17, 2009, 11:12:33 pm » |
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Tink,
Sounds like a monster not a bike,lol.
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« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2009, 11:22:57 pm » |
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Sorry Tink,
I got side tracked and did not finish on sunspots, (solar radiation), it is bad for 40, 80, and 160 meters, it causes what is called static crashes. The lower bands in hf are mostly long wave which means they don't tend to use the ionesphere, (I know I spelt that wrong), lol., to bounce the r wave back to earth. the lower bands in hf tend to hug the earth and kind of bend with the horizon (so to speak).
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« Reply #27 on: July 17, 2009, 11:34:10 pm » |
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Hey Tink checked on the sbe-sb2,
It was a pretty good amp from what I read, used 6 sweep tubes, but they are expensive. It should work fine, the amp is only an extension of ur radio, only thing to watch out for is the keying circuit, but I think u would be fine.
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« Reply #28 on: July 17, 2009, 11:54:22 pm » |
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Yea when I talk to Bob in Platt city in MO I hear many Static Crashes. Only sometimes I can talk to Gary in Moriority NM he is only 250 miles from me and we can talk maby once every two weeks but then the signal is 5x9 or better. Bob is runing 600 watts and I always hear him. But the band is so noisey lately it is difficult to connect. What bands does that HW-101 cover?
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« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2009, 12:01:36 am » |
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Mike, I found this link: http://kcom.us/OldHeathkitParts/hw-101%20history.htmNow I remember that radio. Let me know how it tests out. Take your time since I'm low on cash right now anyway. thanks, Tink |
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« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2009, 12:10:14 am » |
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« Reply #32 on: July 18, 2009, 12:30:10 am » |
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HW101.... brings back memories ! that was my starting radio... I worked on it for 3 months never got it to work correctly...so sent it to the factory and had them fix it...they did and said it was a wireing error ! and charged me for the repair.
what they didn't say was tat the wireing harnis was at fault not my wireing.. when I found that out I called them and gave them a piece of my mind that was better left forgotten anyway ! GRRRR.
I used that radio for years, added a Audio filter and made an interface for the Vic-20 computer and in general learned on it...
I wound up selling the radio many years ago when I got the Yasue 301D which is a transistorized LED readout mobile rig that my Step Dad had used for eons in his 18 wheeler.... he said if I could fix it I could have it... so after finding 34 things wrong in it it finally came to life... at last check it still works,
although I burned out the swr protection circuit in it 2 times now it still works
100 watts with transistors is a bunch different than 100watts with tubes !
the transistors need a very low SWR in order to work good, a tube rig can run a 2:1 and still get 80watts out... <GRIN> where you'd be lucky to get 20 watts out in a transistor rig.
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that is why I went to the Loop antenna... the more wire you have in the air at height the better you will get out... and they are Omni directional which is what every ham needs... unless your after DX.
the Old Bazooka was just a fat dipole but worked better than a single wire dipole because the extra wire ...
my 40m loop was the best antenna I ever made , and I made many antennas, includeing quads/beams. I would like to put up a 160m loop at 50ft or so... and feed it with 75ohm tv coax or even 300ohm twin lead to the antenna turner and be able to reach all bands 10~160m
I live in a Box canyon of iron/ferite Rocks here... and it plays havoc with comunications to the north... only height above ground will get me over it I am sure !
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« Reply #33 on: July 18, 2009, 01:01:44 am » |
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I rest my case! An antenna that gives u 5db, (true 5db) not dbi will give u more than an amp will, and the power company will frown, lol. I don't agree with ur theory on dipoles for now but before I say more I will recheck the loop antenna, I do have room here to put one up. There again bob ur making me work, lol.
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« Reply #34 on: July 18, 2009, 07:07:14 am » |
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i agree it's all in the antenna. Bob, if your surounded on 3 sides by that canyon can you use that to your advantage and make an antenna that will help direct the signal south? You and I could talk easily then at low wattage. I never had a tube HF radio. I want one just to have in case of emagency. I know how fragile this infostructure is. There are a lot of Hams out there who keep the old tube sets working just for that reason. My Cushcraft R7 was an expensive antenna in its day. I got it used years ago and at sea level it didn't do much for me but here at 6500 feet and 26 feet in the air it works great. the tower I'm making for the wind turbine is 35 feet high and I'm placing it 250 feet from my last 43 foot tower and so I'm toying with the idea of stringing a wire antenna from it to that tower. One of these days I'm going to have to retire and get all this stuf done. My day job justs is taking too much of my time.
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« Reply #35 on: July 18, 2009, 03:52:40 pm » |
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Tink how many ground radiadials do you have on that R7 Tink ? ...
I used a 10~80m vertical for a long time in Vinton Ca. it had loading coils in it for every band and was about 30ft tall itself... I put it up and it didn't do much ... I had it clamped to a 6ft piece of 2" water pipe driven into the ground with a bunch of sweat! heheheh I told Joan Coffer(my Homer) that the antenna wasn't too impressive... and she imediately asked about the ground radials... I said I didn't have any... and she said well thats why it ain't working very good...
so I took her advice and put in about 6- 1/4wave long wires...FOR EACH BAND ! and buddy that is a bunch of wire to burry ! i took my axe and cut the turff and incerted the wire , and went on like that trying to make all the wires evenly spaced... I went in the house and turned on the Old HW101 and instead of the 1~2 s-units I had 5 to 6 s-units of incomeing signal...
I got on 80m and called my buddy on CW and he came back and said WOW what did you do ? your signal is 10x10... I explained and he went out in his back yard the next day and added 4 radials for 80m and it made a huge diference !
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...hehehehe I was burrying wire for years.... anytime I'ed get extra wire I'ed add another piece back there..... and it wasn't that hard to do if I watered the grass first ! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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« Reply #36 on: July 18, 2009, 08:18:20 pm » |
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I HAVE the books bob, just need the time to do the research and testing. I am vry tired tonight, long day.
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« Reply #37 on: July 18, 2009, 09:56:10 pm » |
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You have grass? What's that? I wish I had some! Anyway that R7 is not to be used with ground radials. Some of the Cushcraft virticals do need and are designed to use ground radials. My Elmer who gave me the homebrew towers also uses an old Cushcraft R6 I think it is, that uses something like 21 38' ground radials. The R7 has a match box on the base and 7 radials coming out of it and the higher you can get it the better it is. The base of it where the match box is with the radials is about 25' up and bolted to the end of my house. It does real good there. So the very top where the 40meter adjustment is, is 22.5' above that. It covers 10,12,15,17,30 and 40 meters. the whole thing has 3dBi of gain. Each band is 1/2 wave length. It can accept 1800 watts. Under 1.8 SWR on all bands. The match box where the 49" radials are connected to must electrically project the distance they reach out.
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« Reply #38 on: July 18, 2009, 10:25:08 pm » |
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humm OK sounds like a different animal than I had...or am used to ... most DB gain on a vertical back then was about 2db over a dipole...hehehehe
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« Reply #39 on: July 19, 2009, 10:02:10 am » |
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It was 96 here yeaterday. 115 in Phoenix
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« Reply #40 on: July 19, 2009, 11:31:03 am » |
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I'm not saying Redding CA. is the hottest place in the world but one time I parked my motorcycle and went into the Mall for about 30min and I came out and found my motorcycle laying on its side... the pavement had melted and given way !
I've seen it 120degrees in the shade here... and thats so hot lizards pant!
...and I actually cooked an egg on the hood of our old 52 ford took about a half hour but it did FRY... and the motor wasn't running either!
(you don't wann'a know what it did to the paint) LOL
although the car was old oxidized black paint you could smell the car when you walked by it because it was so hot... I bet inside it you could bake bread ! HAHAHHA
...I've never understood why this area is so blasted hot in the summer...but if it wern't for the rain we get in the winter ans spring this area would turn back into a desert in short order !
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« Reply #41 on: July 19, 2009, 11:55:21 am » |
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Yea, I'm in the White Mtns. of AZ. That's high desert. A two hour drive due east of Flagstaff. When I lived down in Glendale I had a brand new pair of Timberline work shoes in my garage for a couple of years and one hot summerday I got them out and put them on and went to Sam's Club. By noon I had walked the soles right off those shoes. They just discinergrated as I was walking. I had to trash them and buy a new pair so I could get home. That's hot.
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« Reply #42 on: July 19, 2009, 04:28:32 pm » |
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U guys can some of my weather. It was 43 % f the other morning. It is so cold and wet up here even the garden will not grow.
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« Reply #43 on: July 22, 2009, 03:15:55 pm » |
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I don't think you're feeling me Mike... It's a constant 65*F in my house because I don't really care for the heat. Sure, I operate just fine in 140* weather, but that doesn't mean I like it. I actually had plenty of fun in -25*F stuff. I had more fun in that than I ever could in the hot stuff. As far as I'm concerned, desert heat is for morons. 65* is the perfect temp, though colder isn't really a bad option.
Though I am odd. If it hits 70ish in my house I start to sweat, but 75ish in other houses doesn't bother me. Depends on expectations I suppose.
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« Reply #44 on: July 23, 2009, 11:27:52 pm » |
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for me 60% f is perfect temp for me, but we swing from 90's to 35% below f here thruout the seasons. I have seen it change over 35 % in 12 hours.
In the summer I crank the ac full bore in bedroom so I Can sleep.
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« Reply #46 on: July 25, 2009, 06:09:29 am » |
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...and as far as I can see water up here boils at 180 degrees.... So it should cost you less to boil the water for your coffee. Move further up the mountain and save more money. 'course it will cost you more in fuel to get there.  Manta |
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« Reply #47 on: July 25, 2009, 06:24:51 am » |
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and your Gyrocopter don't wann'a lift off !
and the snow is Deeper!
and the Deer are a different color !
and the Skunks more Stinky !
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« Reply #48 on: July 25, 2009, 09:13:20 am » |
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I'll tell you what...those deer are much bigger and the elk are huge. I saw a pickup by the side of the road the other day...all smashed....up and that elk on the other side of the road didn't look much better. Once I was coming up the canyon from Globe and a full grown mountian lion ran accross the road in front of my truck. That was almost as big a thrill as when I saw a bolt of lightening strick just 100 feet in front of me. This kind of stuff never happens in Penna. where I gre up. I wouldn't moove back to the city for nuttin.
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« Reply #49 on: July 25, 2009, 10:01:59 am » |
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You would have to PAY me a bunch of money to get me to live in the city ! and then I'ed have to think about it long and hard.... LOL
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« Reply #50 on: July 25, 2009, 11:04:15 am » |
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I'm doing what you (BoB and Manta) suggested and it's going OK since I can take a sleg hammer and can't break the weld. I put it in a vise and bend it with a big 18" pipe wrench and it don't break! The welds look like poop but they hold. I'm using the high voltage setting and the low wire feed and that seams to be what that 1/4" metal needs. When I file off the galvanize it is a lot better and not as smoky. I won't wee on anything that's pluged in.
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« Reply #51 on: July 25, 2009, 03:14:23 pm » |
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Making a PURDY weld ain't nessarry Tink ! making a STRONG weld is ! at one time I used to be real fussy about my welds appearance...but now they are the uglyest welds on the planet...but they usually hold ....I very seldom brake my welds even with the tractor! thats simply because I mix the molten metal in the welding process...most people don't put enough emphasis on that ! and it is the strength of the weld !
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I need them to make the switch plate cover cell...and I just cannot find them anywhere... I probably put them where I wouldn't loose them ! LOL !
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« Reply #52 on: July 25, 2009, 09:09:53 pm » |
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Whatever U do DO NOT!!!!! NOT!!! weld or even grind galvanized steel without a respirator. When u heat up galvanized steel u get a yellow smoke that is highly carcinegetic, "causes cancer"!!! Not to mention other respitory problems and side affects. Please do not do this without a proper respirator. I have been welding since I was 14 and now work for the new york state dot bridge maint. and repair. We have to be certified for any thickness and any position. We use special welding hoods for welding on galvanized. Sorry I have real busy last couple of days, and have not checked in. Also thanks for the book in the mail, when I get ur adress I will send the cd to u.
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« Reply #53 on: July 26, 2009, 09:24:22 am » |
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I'm being reall carefull and am using a face filter for the galvanized metal as I weld. I'm using a file to get the galvanize off the work areas and that seams to do the job. YOu just can't get all this out of books. Thanks all you guys for the advice and help.
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« Reply #54 on: July 26, 2009, 01:32:13 pm » |
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A filter is fine, but if you have a fan you can place next to you while you weld it, that's even better. We had one of those big shop fans that we would use while welding the stuff. Didn't bother to clean it up first either. Just turned on the fan and went to work. That galvanized coating sure is nasty for your body, so do whatever you can to not breath the fumes in. The fumes will also make you dizzy if you do end up breathing it in for a few minutes.
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« Reply #55 on: July 26, 2009, 03:01:20 pm » |
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yes a fan will help, we have what we call horns that hook to big compressors to blow the fumes away, but I feel a respirator is better, and combination of both even better because galv weldinig makes a lot of smoke and can obscure the visibility of the puddle, hindering a good weld.
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« Reply #56 on: July 26, 2009, 03:10:43 pm » |
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well IN all My years of welding galvinized pipe 90% of the time I don't clean off the galvinized surface and weld it anyway, and never ware a resporator as the heat is far to hot for that.... when I was welding up the water tower which has 3- 12' tower sections in it for legs I did get too much of the fumes as I got a splitting headache and figured I'ed better get away from it for a while and so I did, I finished it up the next day with no regrets, the water tower holds a 300gal poly tank 12' in the air and is our water pressure system... but sense it only gives us about 2psi at the house we added a electric pressure pump to up the pressure.... so we have 2 pumps here, one to pump water to the tower wich I run every morning about 45 min and the other one is more or less a demand pump turn on the tap and the pump kicks in and gives you water at a good flow.... turn off the tap and the pump goes off.
but welding up the galvinized pipe isn't all that bad as long as you make it a point not to stand over the smoke that comes off the weld.... the problem is that galvinized pipe is HARDER than black steel pipe by quite a bit, if you get used to welding galvinized pipe then start welding black pipe ( the same pipe without the galvinized coating), you'll be blowing holes all over it unless you turn down the amps ! LOL.... I guess the galvinization proccess crystilizes the metal. or tempers it to a certain extent....
anyway, on your tower, paint the area around the welds when your done before you erect the thing or you'll never get it painted and it will rust up.... like I said paint it sky blue and you won't see it!
even light grey works but light blue is best.... I can't recomend that enough because it really hides the towers! ...
I have a 40' crank up tower up by the Quanset hut that I inherited that is realy a nice one as far as towers go.... if I put up a 20mtr beam it will go on it ! LOL
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« Reply #57 on: July 28, 2009, 01:48:18 am » |
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Well, FINALLY !
I FINALLY got the plugs on that 300ft of cat6 either net cable...
I went down to "Best buy" today and had all the intentions of just letting them do it but after the Kid said they charge $30.00 to put ends on the cable I figured I'ed try to do it myself with the proper cable ends.... well, it turned out that they didn't have any cable ends anyway so I went to Radio Shack...and they didn't have any...should have but didn't but he was sure the other store would have them, ...so I asked him to call and see if they actually had them and he did and so I went down and got them.... 5 of the cat5-E connectors for $7.95.... OUCH!
... we discussed the connectors and he was sure they would work fine so I brought them home and Just now finished putting them on the 300ft length of cat 6 cable.... and put the tester on it and it checked out good!.... I did waste one connector because I had a reversed pare in there but after that I was realy carefull before I crimped the things down! LOL
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« Reply #58 on: July 29, 2009, 10:26:24 am » |
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I E-mailed B&A Computers where I got the cable through Amazon.com, and asked them to send me the proper connectors for the cable , after explaining what they screwed up on...
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« Reply #59 on: July 29, 2009, 08:41:25 pm » |
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glad to here it bob, cudo's to u. 73's.
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Feral, Thanks, again for getting me out of the mud! Mike, Bob, That old 'Automatic Radio' in the photo as my dad's and he bought it in the early '60's. Interesting thing is that the AM band is in Kirocycles. What the heck is a Kirocycle? I'm including another photo of my 'wonderful' welding  Tink |
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I have been pulled over 2 times now in the past year for missing mud flaps. So here is a tribute to Randy. I used some of the fender washers that didn't turn out so good and made mud flaps since the brackets were gone too. This way they won't get stuck and ripped off when I back up in a snow pile or mud hole. Sometimes it is just difficult getting out of here, we are back 4 miles off maintained roads.
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Here is the froint side, I know the spacing is off but the fenderwashers were an afterthought. Sometimes I just start a project without a real detailed plan and see what happens. I had a cop follow me for a few miles yesterday and I think he was pondering the outcome of my project!
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I love the station set-up, way to pack things in, lol. Also lots of wire crammed in to. Bottom left is a tuner I gather, what is under the short wave reciever?
I forgot what u are welding with, stick or mig or tig?
Also I don't remember if I sent a pic of my ham station. If u would like I can send one.
I just started reading the book, looks real good, more in depth than the video. I still think u will enjoy the dvd, hope u get it soon. 73,s.
Mike,
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« Reply #67 on: July 30, 2009, 10:57:58 pm » |
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Hay Mike !
Looks like its our understanding of the post counter not the counter itself... it displays
the total posts of the person on every post they have.... it doesn't count up from one post to the next
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thanks for drawing my attention to it... <grin> I didn't know that ! HAHAHAHA
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« Reply #68 on: July 31, 2009, 07:39:34 am » |
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Bob,
My truck is raised and so needs mud flaps by law. Even a 1" lift requires it in AZ.
Mike,
Yea, I'm a mess. Anyway that's the SBE SB-2LA 1000watt Linear I haven't hooked up yet. The box under the Grundig is the Dentron legal limit Super Tuner The box to the left of it are the tubes for the Linear. Out of 12 I have 6 that are a pritty good match and someday I'll get the nerve to hook it up. I've never ran a 1000watt kicker and am a little intimitaded by it. The headset I use is a Heil and I'd be lost without it since my ears are so bad.
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« Reply #69 on: August 04, 2009, 09:03:42 pm » |
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don't let it bother u, u would prob. be lucky if u got 500 watts out of it.
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« Reply #70 on: August 04, 2009, 09:07:42 pm » |
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Mike,
I got the DVD and it is broken. Someone must have steped on it.
Sorry,
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« Reply #71 on: August 06, 2009, 08:25:18 pm » |
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I am sending u another tommarow, beefed it up more so this time, if I have to I will sandwich it between two steel plates if thats what it takes. Thanks for letting me know, and I lam sorry it did not make it. Let me know how this one fairs.
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« Reply #72 on: August 06, 2009, 10:27:34 pm » |
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Thanks Mike I appricate that.
Some hams think that when this Solar Cycle 24 gets going that 10 meter will open up. That'll be interesting. Have you heard anything about this?
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« Reply #73 on: August 08, 2009, 07:43:52 pm » |
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Tink,
I have heard both ways, some say it is supposed to be the best in like a century, others say it will amount to a very low cycle. I will do some research and see if I can come up with some hard facts. I have seen an increase on 10 m.
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« Reply #74 on: August 08, 2009, 08:57:25 pm » |
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Mike,
I just got off the radio (7265) with a ham in upper NV and also one in 29 pines, CA. I was using the wire antenna and only pushing 85 watts. Got a 20 over from NV and s5 from CA. The ham in Scotsdale here in AZ I could not even hear. All tipical. Usually I can't connect with my buddies on 7265 lately. 40 meter is different every time I tune in.
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« Reply #75 on: August 09, 2009, 07:16:59 pm » |
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Tink,
40 is basically a nightime band with a lot of fading in and out. It is la bit of a challange, but that is what makes it fun.
Mike,
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« Reply #76 on: September 04, 2009, 10:59:44 am » |
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Bob and all,
Here is the photo I promised of the 40' tower for the wind turbine. If it doesn't work out for the turbine or if I sell the turbine then I'll put a woppin antenna up there! any how here it is. My welding got better the further I went and it hasn't colapsed yet so I think it will hold even with the 200 lb turbine on top.
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« Reply #77 on: September 04, 2009, 08:20:31 pm » |
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KOOL ! Looks great ! and Looks like ya got a Tweety-bird on the top of it.... probably takeing advantage of the highest PEARCH in 100miles ! LOL
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I have a question for ya though ...now that its UP...how are you going to get the turbine on the top ?...
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« Reply #78 on: September 05, 2009, 08:02:21 am » |
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That is the easy part. I use the gin pole and my truck to pull it up and down. I hae pictures of that but too big to post. I'll take them again at 640x480.
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