I had some of the terminal copper braiding on my coax's from the remote antenna switch to the wire antennas go bad and corrode away. I replaced them with new coax and while I was at it, I took the time to lay out about 8-9 new 100' & longer radials on the marsh.
I used the new plumbing solder on all of them to cut down on oxidation. FWIW, I've used that stuff on all of my radial connections for the last 8-9 years and in the salt marsh environment, none of them show any oxidation at all. I'm sure lead solder would show severe corrosion in this environment. This lead free solder is a PITA to use on coax but it works. Works much better on ring terminals & WD-1A. Anyway, Here's hoping the effort to get those new radials out will garner me some better Tx on topband. Good luck to us all & 73, Gary KA1J _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
