We got the station assembled and into the car Thursday evening, so all that was left for Friday was to mount the antennas. That took about three hours, with the threat of rain always there. The only
My tip of the day: I color-code the ends of all my pieces of coax to the antennas with heat-shrink tubing, which I've found in at least 8 colors. It really helps as long as I can remember which color
Hi Zack, Good idea. We do that here since the coax bundle here looks like Napoli right after dinnertime. Use the resistor color code. Maybe Black for six meters, brown for 144 etc. etc. Then you can
When I roving with multiple bands, I use color coded wire ties and put one on the tail end of the appropriate beam, and then 1 wire tie on the lowest band, two wire ties on the next one, three on the
I had trouble with the colored tape coming loose and falling off, especially in hot weather when the adhesive gets very soft. That's why I went to the heat-shrink tubing. I tried clear heat shrink ar