Topband: wire ties

[Bruce]

Installing a new receiving antenna, and ran out of wire ties.  Without a local electrical supply store, I purchased some from an automotive store, and found them less than expected. Early morning temperature was 8 f degrees, and the ties snapped with light tightening pressure. Resorted to an old standby, fiction tape to secure some ferrite  split cores. Reminds me of something like "you get what you pay for" 
I suspect, if these ties were installed in warm WX, they could have survived the winter.

73
Bruce-K1FZ
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