I have been thinking about the rubber spray material. The fellow that catch up on the bottom of the boat and replaces it with the window screen and then sprays it. Wonder what would happen if I sprayed a PO 259 both sides with it. I’ve been thinking about sacrificing One connector pair and spray it then maybe soak it in some salt water for a while they just accelerate things watching it with a Ohm meter and cable lost off of my antenna analyzer. When I first got into commercial radio some tower hands taught me to wrap a connector with that scotch tape probably the good stuff with the sticky side out so that the covering did not adhere tightly to the connector making it easier to remove after the layer of sticky stuff out then a layer of butyl rubber molding around it followed by another layer of scotch tape this time sticky stuff in. Then there’s a product from scotch called liquid tape they would always paint it with liquid tape. Most of the connectors I seen that were in the field for a length of time though liquid tape seem to have cracked it was no longer effective. However however I never had a wet connector in many years. By the way the connection set for an Andrew half inch line includes a little tube of silicone grease to be left on the inside of the connector when you’re putting it together.
Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS On Friday, October 14, 2022, 9:20 AM, Robert Polinski via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: <!--#yiv6420079661 _filtered {} _filtered {} _filtered {}#yiv6420079661 #yiv6420079661 p.yiv6420079661MsoNormal, #yiv6420079661 li.yiv6420079661MsoNormal, #yiv6420079661 div.yiv6420079661MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;}#yiv6420079661 a:link, #yiv6420079661 span.yiv6420079661MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv6420079661 span.yiv6420079661EmailStyle19 {font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:windowtext;}#yiv6420079661 .yiv6420079661MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered {}#yiv6420079661 div.yiv6420079661WordSection1 {}--> 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]> wrote: moisture in the feed line connection perhaps? On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:34 AM Shannon Tassin via BVARC <[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] 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] 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] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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