[TowerTalk] No end caps

[Pete Smith]

My antennas have only been up for 11 years, but booms and element ends 
suffer only from turkey buzzard poop. The only the only places I have a 
critter problem are with wasps in the top of my mast, and ants in any 
electronics boxes on the tower - recently, I have started putting moth 
balls in my electronics boxes, and that seems to be working, but I'm not 
looking forward to mortal combat with the wasps, just me and my spray can 
97 feet up.  Guess the smart thing would be to climb up there when it is 
cold and miserable and put a cap over the top.  Sunny days feel better to 
me but to the wasps as well.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 04:48 PM 12/9/2008, wcaselli wrote:
>Critters also hate Fiberglass batting chunks.
>
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>Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:12 PM
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>Subject: [TowerTalk] No end caps
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>I would like some suggestions for a material to use for plugging the
>ends of booms and antenna elements to keep the critters out.  I don't
>like using caps because those just trap the water inside.  I have tried
>plastic pot scrubbers.  Those work well for a while until the UV gets
>them.  I tried the copper pot scrubbers and it turns out they are only
>copper plated and they rust in a short while.  Other suggestions?
>
>Jerry, K4SAV
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