I've had a feedline with the jacket penetrated but the shield underneath looked okay. I cleaned the jacket and wrapped a couple layers of Scotch 33 on it, then covered the tape with liquid plastic. N
Here's a story on the high amount of copper theft in one area (Los Angeles) but copper theft can take place anywhere. The value of copper has increased dramatically to over 50% from where it was a fe
Somehow we got into on or in ground radials. Not helping the original question. It will work. The question is will it work well. Probably not. But it seems like you don't have any other options. So t
I don't want to take away from the original topic but this raises an interesting question: If I have a horizontal antenna such as some sort of dipole (a REAL dipole and not the thing the Ask Dave guy
Over the past 10 years the price of copper per pound has gone from around $2 to over $5 on the London Metals Exchange. The supply and demand are driving this as copper gets squeezed by mining problem
It's an interesting box; wish the manual included a schematic drawing. They make sure that you realize it's only good for impulse noise, so if that's all you ever have to deal with then okay fine. In
More news about copper theft. Watch your antenna farms! https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/copper-thieves-are-wreaking-havoc-across-america Rob K5UJ ___________________________________________
Station on 1260 in Greenville MS is silent due to incredible damage: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/copper-theft-ravages-pair-of-mississippi-radio-stations Rob K5UJ __________
Disagree. Firstly, the scale of damage was beyond ripping up the ground system. More important is the frequency of these thefts driven by the scrap price of copper. If it were just a here and there