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Danny McKinley
Добавлен 18 апр 2010
MARC Electronics 101
McKinney Amateur Radio Club part 2 tube class. By K5CRX club president.
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FLEX SDR RADIO IN THE MOBILE RUNNING PSK31-BY W5FRT
Просмотров 40210 лет назад
FLEX SDR RADIO IN THE MOBILE RUNNING PSK31 SO NEAT. DON'T DRIVE WITH IT RUNNING. SETUP IN A LOCAL PARK AND SHOW THE PUBLIC HOW MUCH FUN AMATEUR RADIO REALLY IS.
70 FOOT SELF SUPPORTING TOWER UP TODAY 2/22/2014 PART 2 OF 2
Просмотров 44 тыс.10 лет назад
PUT UP SELF SUPPORTING ALUMINUM TOWER. FINALLY N THE AIR. 2 METER /440 ON TOP. 13 ELEMENT 2 METER BEAM HORIZONTAL FOR SSB. THEN DUAL 2 METER BEAMS 6 ELEMENT 6 METER BEAM WILL BE ADDED IN NEAR FUTURE
W5FRT 70 FOOT TOWER RAISING 2/22/2014 PART 1 OF 2
Просмотров 8 тыс.10 лет назад
PUTTING UP A 70 FOOT SELF SUPPORTING TOWER. THANKS TO: KF5SAQ RON KF5ZKU RANDY KF5VZD WAYNE N2JCS GARY KB5YIA PHILLIP KF5YQQ MICHAEL N5LVT CHRIS KE5VXZ CLIFF NQ3C CECIL N5YZ BILL W5KZJ ANDY KE5OMD JAN KE5LGY DANIELLE KE5OME AUSTIN
SOLDERING A PL259 COAX CONNECTOR PART 2
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.11 лет назад
PART 2: A lot of people have posted soldering a coax connector but this is how I install a connector. Get your amateur radio :"ELMER to help you Hope you like it. W5FRT DAN
SOLDERING A PL259 COAX CONNECTOR PART 1
Просмотров 8 тыс.11 лет назад
A lot of people have posted soldering a coax connector but this is how I install a connector. Hope you like it. W5FRT DAN
FLEX 1500 23 inch DELL TOUCH SCREEN DEMO BY W5FRT
Просмотров 10 тыс.13 лет назад
Hope you like this short video. The demo is to show how the flex SDR radio works on a touch screen computer. FLEX 1500 into DELL INSPIRON ONE 23 INCH TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTER. W5FRT
Just a suggestion. If the bolt doesn't want to go in, use a socket and turn the bolt in instead of beating it with a sledgehammer. How did this clown pass a ham test?
Thanks for your comment. As I said on the other text that are previously posted, we have new hams and old hams and they're all learning. Nothing was hurt. Everything's fine. Have a blessed day
Wow!
Dan, nice work. Looks so much better with the Anderson PowerPoles. I've been looking at them more since our discussion on the air. KI5OEX
They have Anderson Powerpuff connectors that have about a 6 inch lead on and you can twist several of those together to make a group of connectors connected to one source and they are wonderful
I'm always confused as to why Hams will talk to someone 1000 miles away on a radio, but will yell to someone instead of using a handheld.
I have a pipe cutter, just the right size. It is in the drawer under the bench where I just mounted a connector. Never occurred to me. Now that I see it, I wonder why I did not think of it. AE1EI
2:15 dude wears a belt like a BOSS.
Why is the guy beating on the bolt's with a sledge hammer? They should just slide tight through...
don't need nuts if there ant any threads!
I’m always impressed that towers don’t fold over when raised that way. That’s gotta be the most stressful part of the install!!
yes the pucker factor is high but all went well and with no issues. planing helped.
How to do you figure the load on raising cable?
No hard hats, standing under the tower. Poster children for the next tower accident film....Wow....
Really nice tower . Good Job . I have a 60' self supporting tower with a hinged plate with a electric winch . As I can't climb any more .
Thanks Tom.new hams and old hams some are learning that's why they joined in. Tower is fine and fun was had by all. Texas BBQ and trimmings. Cold sodas too. Sweet tea. Never hurts to train new hams. I have been a ham for over 50 tears. Made many mistakes myself. Har
At approx 55 feet. Higher is better good luck.
At what height do you anchor the ropes? I'm about to lift a 70 Rohn 25g tower.
Total IQ=15
So nice of you to say so.
@@drmckinley if the strap would have broke the poor big man in the yellow shirt would have been the only 1 left. Decreasing the total IQ by 12.
Thang you. Two cables attached for safety. Rated at 800 pounds pull each. The Ham in yellow shirt told everyone when to leave. Safety is always important..it went up easy.
I used to have a book called back to basics, by readers digest, any way they showed erecting a tower with a pickup and a "gin" pole situated so as the truck pulled the tower up the gin pole pushed the pull line upward, so the cable picked the tower up rathet than stressing it with straight pull. Of coarse it would take some planning but it could be figured out, i saw flex on both ends past the pull line, when it was at 45° or so. Edit but thank you for posting nice video.
Len, thank you for your comments. yes a fulcrum would have helped but with the load it was a success and I really like this tower. As a followup we had a very sever storm come past and took the top 10 feet off my tower. but 60 feet stayed with out issue. so now i have 60 feet instead of 70 feet. But for uhf/vhf it still functions. and I have the inverted v antennas still up at the apex at 60 feet. Thanks again. Dan
@@drmckinley DR M Thanks for a reply, i dont know engineering/physics terms, and you apparently do, that's great, this kind of stuff interests me, towers, radios, radio waves etc., have a good night.
Freestanding? That would not survive the winds in my area. Lucky dog.
The 60’ American Tower free standing commercial standard radio tower, when properly installed is rated to withstand 90mph winds coated in 1/2” of ice.
That is a lot of tower for that little bit of antennas? Not a single HF antenna and I would have taped the feed lines to the tower before I stood it up as well.
After the tower was up - my tower worker dressed all cables and rechecked all hardware on the way up and down the tower.
I've just ordered a 40ft tower be here in 6 ~8 weeks then another week for base to cure before it gets up. Should be up by Thanksgiving.
KOOL YOU WILL LIKE IT. EASY TO CLIMB. JUST MAKE SURE YOU RECHECK THE BOLTS FOR TIGHTNESS. REALLY .LIKE MY TOWER.
How is this holding up? They don’t look built to climb, do you bring it back down for service? Looking at one for network access out in the woods but might add a beam and 2m omni to get a bit more value out of it.
jcims Tower is great to climb no I don't let it down. Would work great for a beam just watch wind load of beam. Recheck bolts when assembling. Ensure tightness Tower is aluminium. Mine is 70 feet tall. Good luck.
Thanks for the reply. Great to hear it can be climbed, I reached out to the manufacturer to see if I can find a contractor/consultant to make sure I'm good to go on design.
jcims got mine from Texas Towers in Plano Texas.
This can be climbed all the way to the top to service radios without lowering?
Bunch of FAT people, Dam.
fat and happy. sorry you have to give a negative comment. have a blessed day anyway.
Wonder if I could tig weld something like this, little by little and work my way up to the top!
IF YOU ARE A GOOD WELDER AND HAVE THE MATERIALS, GIVE IT A TRY IN A SMALL SECTION, TO TEST STRENGTH AND RELIABILITY. BE SAFE ALWAYS. WATCH POWER LINES TOO
I welded a 3 section tilt over tower 70 ft used a stick welder easy peasy had it up 20 years till i moved house now need to build another one,just hunting for materials 73 de. vk4ckc
CORRECT, 5 FEET BUT 8 FEET DEEP. YES WITH REBAR CONNECTING ALL THREE SUPPORT LEGS TO EACH OTHER IN THE CEMENT. THREE GROUND RODS ARE ATTACHED - WELDED COPPER STRAP TO TOWER WITH SPECIAL CLAMPS. TOWER MODEL #7-70 UNIVERSAL TOWERS. WEIGHT IS 212 LBS
FREE STANDING ALUMINUM TOWER IS A MODEL #7-70 MADE BY UNIVERSAL TOWERS PURCHASED FROM TEXAS TOWERS IN PLANO, TEXAS 1-972-422-7306
70 foot tower purchased from Texas Towers in Plano Texas. it is really a nice tower and yes a lot of work, but when done a lot of fun. cement is 8 feet square and 8 feet deep
Are you sure 8ft? From the video it looks more like 4-5ft. Did you guys rebar it? And how did you handle the grounding? Did you ground each leg and do a loop?
,,,,,,it is a good task
w5 fart..
ha ha truly.
DR McKinley just messin dude, does the flex 1500 receive VHF and UHF ?
mine just hf only. but they do have transverters for the other. I use other 2 mtr /440 radios for that use. But i really do like the flex radios. lots of filtering advantages.
DR McKinley pity that, but i got a 1500 tonight off ebay, never used a transverter.. i have an 857 but would have been good to have all in 1 box , like the 857 oh well :(
DR McKinley no reason they could not have included VHF UHF RECEIVE !.. tx ON 11m WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD TOO.. STARTING TO REGRET BUYING IT..
Complete novice here. Thanks, nice and helpful!
Just curious what antenna you were using?
Ham stick
What make/model tower is that?
A ham radio tower
Good video. Informative. Useful.
Nice job on the vid. Thanks for passing on the pearls of knowledge.
Great video! W5DPH
great video! w5dph
If you are using stranded center conductor you can carefully remove about 3 strands and it should fit the center ok. Just make sure you have a good solder application on the wires that are installed in the center. There are some PL259 connectors that are cheaply built. Look on ebay for a package of 10 that have good quality material.
What brand connectors are you using? I had an issue yesterday with some Wilson 400 coax, where the center conductor was slightly too large to go into the connector's pin channel.
Ampenol connectors
nice video, but i question the safety of your solder method. Looks like some could fall and burn your bluejeans, which were featured a lot in the videos. Maybe using a vice would have been a good idea, as well as safety glasses.
Good Job Dan! I can slepp at night now knowing you got rid of that fire hazard!
Amateur radio has seen a lot of changes over the years and just wanted to share info on the flex sdr radio. Touch screen is so cool!! Thanks
That is way Kewl Dan. That makes the FLEX really come to life