I've used these and they work real well:
http://www.escalera.com/stairclimbing/index.htm
When you are moving something heavy like a repeater
cabinet a powered dolly is worth every penny of the rental
expense.
The 700 lb capacity model costs about $1700 new, and a
couple of the local specialty
On 8/31/2010 12:34 PM, Chuck Kelsey wrote:
Yes, a screwdriver is your friend.
Chuck
WB2EDV
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On 8/31/2010 2:05 PM, ka9qjg wrote:
OK Great , Thanks to Everyone who answered , I will sleep better now
one less thing to worry about
Don KA9QJG
Not the same thing, but something else to remember: Mount them
vertically! If you mount them horizontally, you run the risk of the
rods warping
A screwdriver is your friend...
Try going to the repeater site leaving your tools at home. It only takes one
stubborn screw to drive you nuts. Fortunately, friends took pity on my
stupidity and brought my tools to the bottom of the hill. 10 seconds and the
proper tool and life was good.
Greetings,
I am in a particularly sticky situation with one of my two meter repeaters in
Lakewood, WA (Tacoma). I have generally great coverage, however there is a very
annoying problem with multipath and raspy signals in a large portion of my
coverage area. Since the Puget Sound area of
http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/cir_pol_rpt.html ?
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
From: gary.k...@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:44:16 +
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Circular polarization for VHF repeaters?
Greetings,
I am in a
Gary,
I am in Southern Oregon and I understand exactly what you are experiencing. We
have very similar problems down here with our club's repeater. I have often
talked about and even done some serious looking at remodeling a set of
broadcast loops and harness for 2 Meters.
I know there was a
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Gary - K7EK wrote:
In the 80's there was a amateur radio repeater book by a fellow,
Pasternak I believe, that took two gamma match style Cuschcraft Four
Pole antennas, combined them, and did some magic with phasing lines to
end up with a four bay circularly polarized
Hi,
I remembered circular polarization was used for FM broadcast due to FM car
radios, but when I looked it up I found out some interesting facts, see the
link below,
FM broadcast is NOT changing to vertical polarity!
Most stations today are going on the air with either circular polarity or
cross polarity (consisting of signal in BOTH the vertical and horizontal
poles)
With FCC licensing today, a FM station licensed for 10KW can have 10 KW in the
vertical
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