Look on ebay for surveyor's tripod. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1311.R3.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.XSurveyor+.TRS0&_nkw=surveyors+tripod&_sacat=0 You may pay £20 if you are

It is very easy for us youngsters in our 70s to be intolerant of the old uns. I think the cheque facility needs to be retained but discouraged. I think people have highlighted solutions to John's trip

Hi Ben, I can probably help but you will need to specify what sort of flange you need. A picture would be useful. 73 Paul G8AQA

There are many grades of stainless steel. Some are poor for strength and others quite strong and are heat treatable. Dangerous to make sweeping statements. Corrosion of adjacent materials and galling

Soft bricks and soft mortar are very good at accommodating settlement without cracking but were mostly used well before aerials were thought about let alone rawlbolts. If at all possible drill through

The technique you show with a secondary boom may be good for stacking them. I do find it difficult to keep them perfectly straight. Of course the secondary beam could be bigger cross section which wou

Maybe a high gain antenna pointing at the home station and a broader one pointing over the other side of the hill. Just connect them together with no active stages. I wonder if it would get us over th

These might be worth a look. We are using them on a 24" telescope. https://www.cuidevices.com/product/motion/rotary-encoders/absolute/modular/amt21-v-kit Paul G8AQA

There is quite a big mismatch between the properties of oil and water so an oil cooler would be much less effective. A full car radiator has to deal with a hundred or so kilowatts but relies on forwar

I have some prime focus dishes here - around 1.5m. More than I will ever use. One is ex-G4BAO. You might be able to find pics of it. Let me know what you want. I am working with bigger dishes now. 73

One could always reinforce the dish mount from behind with a GRP/polyester car repair pack. We used to use these quite a bit for patching up old bodywork. No sure it would pass the 10 year test these

Google saves having to dig out the complete OED on almost microfiche! 73 Paul G8AQA

Aluminox paste seems to be only available down under. https://www.blackwoods.com.au/electrical/cable-jointing-resins-compounds/cable-jointing-products-resins-and-compounds-miscellaneous/compound-joint

Hi Andy, I Have a long term project TG and have found Peripheral Mode Isolators for isolating the tracking output from the HP8566. There are a few on Ebay. Reading other peoples experiences this isola

Hi Ben, I wonder if it is worth another try? I will have an extra 2m antenna height and a good front end filter. Better either before the contest or late on when things have calmed down. 73 Paul G8AQA

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I have a similar system that is troubled by a local phone mast. A filter makes a 23dB improvement to background noise in the worst direction. I conclude that there is a strong out of band signal causi

Did you get anywhere with data on these Ben? I have found I have a couple. Paul G8AQA

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