If the WD-11A is so weak and a repair problem why not support it on one of the higher strength fishing lines as a messenger?
Carl KM1H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom W8JI" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage strain auto-disconnects >> However, single wire Beverages are out. The only way I can have >> Beverages in more than a couple of directions (south, southwest, and >> west) is to make them reversible. All feeds have to be on the end >> that is on high ground so that leaves two-wire Beverages with a >> reflection transformer at the far end. > > I see now. > >> I settled on WD1A wire for ease of installation. BUT the stuff is a >> nightmare when it breaks! It is never a clean break, but rather a >> badly frayed section at least several inches long. Over time the >> Beverages quickly shorten from cutting out the bad section and >> splicing, requiring re-adjustment of the end points and/or splicing >> a new section in. Splicing the stuff is not fun with the steel >> strands, and splices must be COMPLETELY waterproofed or else the >> steel strands rust through and the wire becomes too weak. Not to >> mention the tinned copper strands seem to get "eaten" by the rust. > > This is exactly the problem I have with Wireman stranded ~400 ohm ladder > line. After a few years, if water gets inside, conductors rust through. > > Heat from soldering also seems to remove the ultra thin copper layer over > the steel core. I suspect that wire is not copper clad, but some sort of > copper flash or plate. > > Anyway, I see now what you are doing. > >> I will admit I haven't tried "window line". I should be able to >> install it with a level of aggravation somewhere between two >> separate wires and the WD1A I now have. But I imagine that stuff >> isn't the most fun to splice when it breaks either? > > The solid wire stuff is, IMO, much easier to splice. Stranded has the same > problem you describe. It has to be watwerproofed, and heat removes the > thin > copper "whatever" on each strand. > > 73 Tom > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2437/5143 - Release Date: 07/20/12 > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
