Jim,
You've done well to get to your antenna maintenance before it's so cold the
soldering gun won't even work (has felt like that anyway).
I googled the "Tacky Tape" to see if it's the same stuff I'm thinking about,
and nothing came up to match what I also will pass along --
"Rescue Tape" is one brand of some self-fusing tape that you can wrap
connections with and it cuts off cleanly, as opposed to Coax-Seal and other
variants of sealant.
This stuff, and there are websites describing it fully, stretches significantly
to apply layer pressure on the wrap, and then it fuses to itself like a
self-vulcanizing patch.
I originally got onto it when I found a case of it at a state surplus
warehouse. Military nomenclature, and it had a taper to it where the center
thickness was perhaps twice that of the edges, so it would feather along nicely
and not bunch up.
Excellent dielectric too, and apparently they've improved it today from the
early stuff. The directions back then said to wrap it with conventinal
electrical tape to prevent UV deterioration, but now I see it has inhibitors
built-in.
Don't know about a cost comparison, but anything that's watertight, physically
strong, and non-corrosive (unlike silicon seal) is worth it to me.
Best wishes
Paul
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