Dave_K9NX wrote:
> In the department of "other problems to consider" if you actually >use the
> fireplace to burn wood then expect your antenna to eventually >become covered
> with soot black another name for carbon . Amazingly >conductive this stuff
> called carbon and it will create resistance >paths across insulators and
> eventually lead to arching.
HI Dave
Boy, that's the truth. I had a TH-3jr up about 15 years ago,
right next to the fireplace chimney. After one winter, the
antenna became inoperative. I took it down, and it was covered
with soot, even inside the coils. It ruined the antenna. So
don't put an antenna on or near a chimney with smoke coming out
of it. 73
Tom W7WHY
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