Hi Phil, Forgot to add that I use Flex Weave wire for both Horizontal and Vertical antennas. Like Julius said it is super to work with and very strong.You can tie knots in it. Although I am not too keen about using heavily insulated wire, the insulation does protect the copper from birds' claws and other flying objects. If I have to make a joint, I solder the copper ends together (usually a no no ), lay about a foot of 1.6 mm Kevlar alongside for reinforcement, give the copper,adjacent Kevlar and nearby wire insulation a good coating of Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline) to keep moisture and beasties out, and cover with flexible UV resistant heatshrink (not overdoing the shrinking). I usually cover all that with more jelly. Seems to work as I checked a joint recently that has been up for five years - jelly OK , no signs of corrosion and no beasties.
Also use Jelly to weatherproof coax connectors (N type) before wrapping with +33 tape. Could run a kW at a couple of QTHs past with no problems caused by Jelly - HF and VHF. Don't know how UHF connectors would behave. 73, Geoff. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
