Correct. What I ended up using was not a knot and why I called it a
"junction" hi-hi. At this point I have learned how to tie a bowline but
I doubt I could make one around myself one-handed.
So here is another update of the tower saga. Long-winded warning so do
not read if in a hurry.
After repairing the 6m reflector that got blown off the yagi by
lightning and ripping out the RG-142/LMR-400 feedline to the rotatable
shorty-40 dipole (after finding numerous holes blown through the coax
braids to get to the tower) I made a quick SWR measurement of the 40m
dipole while only 6' off the ground.
Using my AIM the SWR curve seemed acceptable with a dip at 7.025 and
1.25:1 SWR, which considering the height above ground looked ok to me. I
figured once at 71' the dip would raise back it's normal ~7.200 MHz.
That never happened. Once in the air the SWR became highly intermittent
with a dip someplace around 8 MHz. Totally pissed off, my XYL & I
lowered the tower again so I could examine the dipole feed etc.
Everything looked ok so I grabbed my digital LC meter and measured the
inductance of both of the loading coils. One read very close to the 11
uH I seem to remember to be the right value, the other was reading all
over the place bouncing around like a ping-pong ball. So at that point I
knew it was time to loosen all the hose-clamps, drill out the
pop-rivets, and bring in the coil sections.
I had repaired these cushcraft coils a decade earlier after the
connections from the inductors to the aluminum tubing failed by loose
sheet metal screws ( a common CC issue). I cleaned up the solid copper
wire coil ends, re-formed the end loops and used a slightly larger SS
sheet metal screw to securely fasten the inductor to the tubing. I then
put a 2" length of adhesive lined heat-shrink tubing over each end and
called it done. That fix worked great right up until the lightning hit
last year.
So yesterday when I took my heat-shrink tubing off and exposed the #10
solid copper wire/SS sheet metal screw/aluminum tubing interface I was a
bit shocked at the extreme galvanic action that had taken place to all
the exposed copper wire ends. They were solid black and very THICK ! I
had to use a #2 X-acto blade and scrape each end for about 15 minutes
before I got down to shiny copper again. Once cleaned up I applied some
"Noalox" compound to both junctions, re-torqued the SS screws and heat
shrunk new tubing over each end.
Currently way to windy to attempt to raise the tower so the final test
results are still unknown but my fingers are crossed. If you like here
are a couple images showing the extreme corrosion that occurred and why,
I suspect, the readings were all over the place.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G8EsYbrpfWdtZ1MHKQrNq75iUpRqNEvU
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qNjKkrfhqX3I3VDfBV7NEWyZtlqgwtnc
Gedas, W8BYA
Gallery at http://w8bya.com
Light travels faster than sound....
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
On 12/10/2019 8:51 AM, Charles Gallo wrote:
The ABOK is a great reference, but not the easiest to follow
What I believe he did wasn’t technically a knot ( I showed him a drawing)
Make a bight in your line, and pass the bight through a ring, and the spread
the two legs of the bight, and pass over the ring. Effectively the line makes a
wrap around the ring, but the line never crosses itself. Fairly normal way of
putting clips on a flag halyard
--
73 de KG2V
Charlie
On Dec 10, 2019, at 6:12 AM, wayg@cape-vision.com wrote:
The Ashley Book of Knots is a great reference, and there are online
references as well.
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