While you guys were chewing on this I decided to repair a broken coax
on the 80 meter array for beaming europe... Temp 96 degrees... Wind
blowing like snot with a storm front coming in and cumulus building to
the West and getting ready for a climax... I climb slowly to 100 feet
(puffing and sweating.. It can't be cause I'm out of shape! 'Must be
the heat', I mutter)...
After a bit of maneuvering, and using one foot to snag a drooping wire
I untangle the 70 feet of coax that had flopped back against the tower
and managed to wrap itself on everything in sight... I capture the
center insulator of the driven element that is waving widly in the
wind... After some ten minutes of stripping and clipping and clamping
I have the coax reattached... I drag out the propane soldering
pencil... I can't keep it lit in the wind... I even resort to lighting
it inside my tool pouch.. All I succeed in doing is burning a hole in
the pouch... Jeez Louise... I give up and climb down... I left the
connected parts taped to the tower leg... I'll have to solder on a
calmer day... The saving grace is that I don't have a coaxial choke to
deal with...

denny