With an unbroken feedline, a failure or antenna swap can require
soldering connectors up the tower. Not fun. If you're concerned about
the additional loss of a barrel connector at 50MHz, you should be using
feedline with lower loss than LMR400 up the tower. Wrap the barrel
connection with good quality 3m vinyl tape and paint over with
Scotchkote to keep water out.
YMMV!
73,
Josh W6XU
On 10/10/2016 3:44 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
I believe the use of a single
unbroken feedline from the antenna to the shack (when possible) trumps
the inconvenience of properly engineering an install that does NOT put
unnecessary repetitive bending moments on the line.
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