R: [TowerTalk] klm kt34 baluns

[Maurizio Panicara]

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Tope <w4ef@pacbell.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>; Mark Sihlanick <n2qt@pipeline.com>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] klm kt34 baluns


>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Our club has just finished rebuilding a KLM KT-34XA and KLM 40M4
> yagi. The general consensus among the work crew was that it probably
> would have been better to throw the antennas away and buy new ones.
> Removing all the dirt and corrosion on all the electromechanical joints
> in these two KLM antennas was an incredibly time consuming job.

The corrosion in the joints is the proof  that a wrong material in the KLM
"conductive" paste created a galvanic current circulation.
All refurbished KLM antennas of my area didn't use any more "conductive"
compounds but rearranged clamps, instead.
Those renewed KLM antennas are lasting longer than before without any sign
of electrical troubles like it sometimes happened before.

73,
Mauri I4JMY


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