[BC] Moseley Starlink SL9003Q Interference Fix

Chuck Lakaytis chuck at akpb.org
Thu May 8 00:17:33 CDT 2008


We had the exact problem with loose stuff on a AM tower causing the 
problem at KOTZ-AM, Kotzebue.  The CE Pierre Lonewolf got rid of all 
the loose stuff and the problem went away.


Tom Bosscher wrote:
>    You need a good tower person to go up the tower and tug and pull 
> on everything on the tower, especially anything near any antenna 
> spitting out RF. A huge offender are the stainless steel pulling 
> harness's used to haul Heilax up a tower. Almost always they are 
> left in place. I have had tower climbers look at these right next 
> to a 20 kw antenna input array and pull 1" arcs. Have the tower 
> person pull all of these of the tower and cut off any left over 
> chain links that are used to clamp in any antennas. Anything loose has to go.







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