Antenna Wax. It's a classic joke out here if not a very good one. Polished the antenna today with antenna wax. Maybe it wasn't a joke. Jon _______________________________________________ TenTec maili
I actually sold some SWR Spray to a Charlie Baker operator once. Back in the Dot Matrix Printer days. The printed label was quite convincing. This was a half can as a gift. The guy came back wanting
I cut out a lot of the webbing in my 450 ohm feeders.decreases wet to dry tuning, plus it decreases the wind load and makes the ladder line a lot lighter. use good cutting shears or you gonna have a
Problem solved .... I think. Just added some wetting agent - washing up liquid - to the water and re-sprayed. Losses jumped to 5dB/100ft at 26MHz! Steve G3TXQ I hope you document the test on your web
Steve, Since you're our "guinea pig" on this one, are you willng to try putting some wax on the line and then re-running the wet vs. dry tests to see if that makes any difference as some claim? Altho
Hello Steve, I don't doubt your instruments but, do believe that we would notice a 5db drop in signal. Unless the books taught me wrong, a 5db loss would be Very Noticeable. About this, there is no n
Once again, WELL DONE. Now if we can only figure out a way to get our competitors to rinse their feedlines with washing up liquid before the contests... 73 Rick, DJ0IP Problem solved .... I think. Ju
Wade... you need someone to blog about how effective that SWR Spray is, just to give it greater credibility. You know... if you read it on the web, it must be true. As it is probably not mentioned on
A nice sharp wide wood chisel and mallet works well. Just cut the web on each side, skip one web and then cut another one out. Works and doesn't inflict pain on the hands. 73 Bob, K4TAX -- Disclosure
How does the electrolytic content of your water compare with that of natural, NE US acid rain? == K8JHR == it's difficult to see how the water could change the copper loss, but you can see how it mig
Hi Steve and All, This is the way I see it. As long as we do not add liquid soap to the rain water, we should be OK. And, if we decide to wash our window line with liquid soap, we have to make sure w
Ok, let me try the simple Executive summary: Taking a length of window-line fresh off the drum, and dowsing it with UK (midlands) rain water I see an small increase in attenuation at the top of the H
Just wondering.....there is a product called Rain-X that causes water to bead up and roll off when applied to such as car windshields. Wonder how that would work on any of the balanced line materials
*For those who may have missed the humor. The SWR Spray was a Joke. We just never had the courage to tell the 6 foot 6 inch and 250 pound Charlie Baker Operator. Sure hope he does not read about it h
wetting agents are things like detergents and soaps, they hole the water in place, to liquify dirt in a washer. Stuart Rohre K5KVH _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list
I think today's password should be... "electrolytic." Rainwater might have some salts and other stuff in it... and I am sure the "wetting agents" under discussion contain various stuff that change th
First of all the 5 dB loss stated is at 26 MHz and not 3.9 MHz. There is a difference. And with 1 S unit being 6 dB, I seriously doubt you'd notice the difference. If you believe you do, just tweak t
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On 8/1/2013 3:10 PM, Wade Staggs wrote: *For those who may have missed the humor. The SWR Spray was a Joke. We just never had the courage to tell the 6 foot 6 inch and 250 pound Charlie Baker Operato
That is a good point about wetting agents forming an electrolytic solution. My long ago chemistry training seems to bring to mind that detergents and soaps function by facilitating ions to separate.