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Re: Topband: Weatherproofing F-type connectors

To: Larry K4AB <larry.k4ab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Weatherproofing F-type connectors
From: mstangelo@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:14:22 +0000 (UTC)
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Larry,

My cable company recently replaced the coax to my house.

The Compression type F connector they used had an additional rubber gasket on 
the front so that it would make a watertight seal to the lightning arrestor 
bulkhead.

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: Larry K4AB <larry.k4ab@gmail.com>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 02:43:56 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Topband: Weatherproofing F-type connectors

I'm in the process of installing a receive 4 square for 160
using F type connectors and high quality flooded RG-6.

Do these things need additional weatherproofing?

As I recall all the many cable TV installations I have had
over the decades, done by major cable and satellite companies,
none have been weatherproofed.

If its good enough for those guys, at those frequencies,
shouldn't it be good for us at 1.8 MHz?


73,
Larry K4AB
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