Ron Hardin wrote:

The antenna rod, which is pressed onto the screw mount attached to it,
the whole thing then screwed by the customer onto the antenna base,
works its way off what it has been pressed onto.

The rod, in my case, fell to the ground and was standing bottom straight
up in the snow.

I simply (ha! the screws rust) replaced the whole thing with the
antenna rod assembly from one of my two dead DA100E's. (I have
six active, and one spare; and have accumulated two dead ones,
at a rate of one failure every 18 DA100E-years.)

I'm cooling the rod's base and heating the rod, and will see if it
can be pressed back together or not. Just pushing doesn't do it.

The funny thing is that, now that I look, another one is in the
process of working its way off too.

I don't get the mechanics of it.

Success. I don't know how much the temp difference helped.

Drill a hole in the short 2x4 just large enough to accommodate
the 2nd segment of the antenna, which is also the diameter of the ball
on the end. Put the hole at the end, and position it off the end of
a basement stair, with the antenna pointing down through it.

That supports the base element of the antenna, recently heated;
insert frozen screw mount, tap in with hammer. Goes right in.

I pre-coated each with DeOXit (brush-on) so they make decent
electrical contact too.

Now wait for the next outdoor one to fall apart and I have a
replacement.

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Ron Hardin


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