Fellow timenuts, You know you are a time-nut when your spring cleanup dutines involves getting onto the rooftop and clean your GPS antennas. In my case my dual frequency antenna (really a survey antenna, a Novatel GPS 502 L1/L2) was due to lack of patience temporarily put up there in a not so fixed position, so that the wind shifter position and attitude as it slided down the tiles that it was effectively useless, especially as it was pointing mostly north into the big GPS hole and putting the antennas nuling power towards most of the low-attitude sats. Let's just say that I'm not too proud of that mounting... I know better, I know far better... but I am impatient to play with the news toys, so I hope people recognice the feeling.
My biggest problem is that I have a large TV antenna pole sitting ontop of one of the chimneys. It is needed as the house is partly down a valey to get a nice and clean TV signal. Fairly new also, as the old antennas was broken. I have got part of the gear to mount the GPS antennas on the other chimney, but lack the proper antenna tubes. My big L1 choke rings (AT575) can be mounted without the central tube but I wish to use the combination of that and the three outer mounting screws. I need to build a mounting platform for it anyway. Besides, I think the way I pull cables and what cables I use could improve. My RG 58 is certainly not optimum, but it is cheap, easily available alongside connectors and suitable strip and crimp tools. So... hints for tubes and other mounting aspects would be nice. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.