lew <lew@dsl-only.net> wrote: This is an easy one after height of Beverages.
Do you guys protect the
terminating resistor from the Beverage to the ground rod in a
unidirectional Beverage?
FWIW, NO!
My stuff tends to have a short life span either due to "accidents" or
intentional modifications. Not to mention every time somebody wants to play on
a tractor or graze a cow I have to disassemble every thing.
Repairs and/or mods are more easily accomplished if everything is out in the
open. I have standardized on two methods. The more elegant one is a piece of
plexiglas with two stainless steel screws that have multiple nuts and solder
lugs. The terminating resistor is either soldered to the lugs or wrapped under
the screw heads. The connecting wires are wrapped under the excess nuts. I have
a tool box full of these pre-made and can swap them out in a jiffy.
The less elegant method uses small wire nuts with the resistor leads twisted
onto the connecting wires. I found I can actually replace a broken resistor
installed in this manner when the temperature is about 10° and the wind is
blowing at 40 MPH!
Even though the resistors are out in the open, they do not seem to be adversely
affected by weather. Of course, both in the AZ desert and the WA desert, there
is no salt spray to worry about.
The isolation/matching transformer is a different story. I always put them in
weather tight boxes with stainless steel connecting hardware. In AZ I would
sometimes just pot them in epoxy but that made swapping them out a problem.
73,
Larry - W7IUV
DN07dg - central WA
http://w7iuv.com
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