Cecil Moore wrote:
wrote:
If you are talking about home brew stuff, the general solution is to
clean, apply anti-oxide grease, and connect under compression, i.e.
something with a tightening screw.
I'm putting my rotatable 20m dipole back up and am,
once again, needing to connect ladder-line to
aluminum tubing out in the weather. I guess I'll try
brass hardware this time.
If there isn't already, stuff a short hunk of something solid like a
fiberglass rod or wood dowel in the end where you make the connection,
put terminals on the wires, use stainless screws with star lock washers
under the screw head and between the terminal and tubing and the terminal
and nut, anti-oxide grease, overwrap with sealing tape then with regular
tape.
That's how I connected to the vertical in the middle of my lawn where
the sprinklers hit it about a decade ago and there have been no
problems.
FWIW, I tried brass (because someone gave me a bunch) for this sort of
thing and switched to stainless.
--
Jim Pennino
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