So here it is in the middle of Sandy and I'm 300' from the water's
edge and thought I'd check to see if I had any antennas left. I had a
horrific series of SWR readings regardless of band. It was around
10PM, the height of the high tide & storm here in costal CT. I had to
see what was up & got to the stone wall bordering the salt marsh &
with the spelunker's light saw the problem, The relay end of my
Ameritron RCS-8V Remote Coax Switch was 5' under salt water. I later
retrieved it and hosed it out & rinsed with alcohol, it seems to be
OK today. Not so sure about the long-term condition of the coax to
the radial plate/& 5 different antennae hooked up to it. Amazingly
all of my antennae are wire shot over the tree tops and I didn't lose
any of them.
There's advantages & disadvantages to have your radials on a salt
marsh, disadvantages especially during a hurricane.
Gary
KA1J
> Usual east coast subjects have been preoccupied. 73, Guy.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Last night (31 Oct UTC) was very good on 160. AA0RS and W5XZ were trolling
> > in the Europeans. The band seemed to be open all evening with OH3XR and
> > PA3FQA being beacons, and RI1ANF with a big signal. But that was about it.
> > Not even the usual east coast suspects.
> >
> > C'mon guys....it's time to test those new antennas that have been
> > discussed at length !
> >
> > 73,
> > Steve, N2IC/5
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