When making outdoor connections, use a little silicone grease on the outside of the fitting then wrap 3m 88 tape 1 layer thick around the fitting. Next add a layer or 2 of the 3m 2228 Tape then outer layers of 88. Always use 3M 88 tape outside. It is rated a higher temp than 33. Never use a cheap store brand or no name tape (Imported) as it will come off as a stickie mess if you ever have to remove it and will not last in the sunlight. 3M 88 will cost $4.00 or so a roll where the cheap tape, you get 10 rolls for $5 but you get what you pay for. Robert KD5YVQ
From: BVARC <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jeffrey Carson via BVARC Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 9:59 AM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> Cc: Jeffrey Carson <[email protected]>; Philip Bartash <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BVARC] Dipole - one day ok, next day high SWR In case you havent, a tape such as this https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00005456/ in Houston is necessary or your coax will go bad very very quick. Tape it around the PL connectors. There are other kinds, but this one you can find at Lowes or HD pretty easy. On Friday, October 14, 2022 at 08:41:40 AM CDT, Philip Bartash via BVARC <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: moisture in the feed line connection perhaps? On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:34 AM Shannon Tassin via BVARC <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: All, I have an OCF 80-10M dipole that I just hung between some trees in a new location. I hung it yesterday (before all of the rain) and was able to tune it on every frequency with my Yeasu FT-991A and make several FT-8 contacts. It seemed to be working very well. This morning, it will not tune on 80, 40, 30,17. Any clues on what is going on? This is the second time I’ve had this issue - last time it wouldn’t tune on 40 & 30 - I thought it had to do with being to close to the house which is why I moved it. I sent it back to the person that made it and they checked it out and sent it back to me. Thanks, Shannon ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/%20>
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