[TowerTalk] Hose Clamps

[n8cc at mei.net]

While you're replacing inferior parts, consider addressing the
plastic
element and boom caps.  My last HyGain antenna
came with blue and 
orange caps.  The sun ate them up in
two years up here in Michigan.  They
probably wouldn't
last a summer down south.  

Possibly a good grade of
black tape, carefully applied, would offer some 
degree of UV
protection.

MFJ is where good companies go to die.

Jeff - N8CC