My point David was that precisely the same rule applied to Water Island
as to KP5 but without whatever political clout was used to get
Desecheo in only a few here did not have the intensity of your efforts
as an ARRL insider as SCM for Puerto Rico ringing the bells at Newington.
He is another
Helpful advice, Tom. Thanks. I've always worried about using silcone grease
on connectors. I understand it helps seal the connector, but my fear is that
it could interfere with the electrical bond. On the face of it, getting
non-conducting grease on, e.g., the center terminal of an N-connector or
High pressure contacts, I feel fine getting slathering dielectric grease all
over them before making the connection. Examples are like a Battery terminal in
a car, or a spade lug under a screw, or the barrel on an F connector. Something
you actually apply some amount of force to tighten (even
It certainly is not asking for trouble, Jim. It is good practice, and after
using it in countless UHF, N, and F connectors for over 40 years without a
problem, I agree 1000% percent with Tom. Even though silicone dielectric
compound is non-conductive, it does NOT prevent good metal-to-metal
Guys - this subject has gone on too long already. Thanks.
Tree
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Interesting timing Bruce!
Last week I had noticed my NW/SE 2 wire Beverage acting funny, poor F/B in
particular along with it being noisy.
It turned out to be the ground rod clamp had loosened, the screws doing the
clamping and holding the #12 wire were completely rusted. This rod had been
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Jim Garland 4cx2...@miamioh.edu wrote:
I've always worried about using silcone grease
on connectors. I understand it helps seal the connector, but my fear is
that
it could interfere with the electrical bond. On the face of it, getting
non-conducting grease
Hi Jim and All,
I had been working in Medical Electronics 25+ years... Now retired for over 20
years.
Silicone Grease was and is still used on all high voltage connections to the
X-Ray tube. The cathode lead
had the high voltage and the filament voltage. It never changed any of the
filament
