taped connections

[Ai7b at teleport.com]

	hello jon ... ur experience echos mine.....
	the best solution is to plan a minmum number of splices/connectors
	as possible in your installation!!
	73 de bravo

>From AA3JU George Cook <george at epix.net>  Sun Mar 17 18:23:56 1996
From: AA3JU George Cook <george at epix.net> (AA3JU George Cook)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:23:56 -0500
Subject: ARRL DX CW Mystery
Message-ID: <199603171820.NAA23198 at epix.net>

At 05:45 PM 3/16/96 PST, you wrote:

>
>I think he one of the *very few* weak Italians telling you in his native
tongue the cordality "ciao" and thank you for working him with his pathetic
signal, ten watts and a coat hanger....You Never Got His Callsign!

Now wait just a second here!  I have been studying "contest Italian" for a
few years now and if my translation is correct then it goes something like this:

If 300watts = 3 Kw then:
10 watts = 100 watts and Coat hanger = TA-33 at 60 feet.

Man condions must have been pretty bad to miss a signal like that!!!

Laugh it's humour dammit!

george
AA3JU  george at epix.net    AA3JU at W3PYF
Proudly  F R C...........
"FRC When second best just isn't good enough!"


>From Victor Vernon Burns <vburns at netcom.com>  Sun Mar 17 18:37:20 1996
From: Victor Vernon Burns <vburns at netcom.com> (Victor Vernon Burns)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:37:20 PST
Subject: Rotators for 2 stacked 15/20m yagis / [YAESU COMMENT]
Message-ID: <InterAp.3.1.a.19960317103720.4@>

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K7LXC

  .  cast aluminium mast clamps of YAESU rotators don't hold very
     well and will break under stress

KC2X

  .  likes his G2700SDX, but..
  .  broke 2 of the mast clamps
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Yaesu is *very* explicit about how to assemble this bracket.  We have had n=
o problems with and 85# double walled 15' Mast, a TH-7DX 85# and a 2 Elemen=
t 40M 65# with no thrust bearing, and it will turn it in very heavy wind no=
 problems.

Back to the clamp, it is a strange set-up but I was very carefull to follow=
 there directions in centering and tightening.  Specifically, tightening is=
 just barely past finger tight and I can well imagine that some guys torque=
d the $@%^%#$ out of the bracket.

Victor KI6IM