Hi Don,
I just let my resistors hang in the open air. Most of the connections are
soldered, or at least tightly twisted if I was in a hurry and didn't bring
the blow torch/soldering gun along. The ground-rod end is usually just
clamped to the ground rod with an all-stainless hose clamp.
Leaving them in the open makes inspection and maintenance easy. I haven't
had to replace one in four and a half years at this QTH; maybe only two or
three over 20 years at two previous QTHs. One of those was on a short wire
very close (within 50 feet) to the TX antenna, and I think the TX RF popped
the single 2-watt resistor I had been using. I replaced with a parallel
combination of about ten two-watt resistors (20 watts total) and never had
another failure on that one.
The resistors are at the bottom of the short vertical wire; I generally
don't slope the ends down -- tried that on a couple and didn't see any
improvement.
Most of my terminations now use two to four 2-watt resistors in parallel;
some use only one or two, depending on what I could scrounge from the junk
box at the time.
73/Jon AA1K
Delaware
At 05:47 AM 6/26/02 +0000, you wrote:
>I have been noticing lately a dropoff in performance of my beverage.
> before re-inventing the wheel I would like to hear from others,
>how you solved the problem of protecting the terminating resistor from the
>weather and moisture condensation.
>
>Don K4KYV
>
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