On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:20:47 -0000, "Brian Reay"
wrote:

"Jack Painter" wrote in message
news:VqeEd.11987$B95.4079@lakeread02...

"Spike" wrote
2. How do I bond the radials together? (I guess my 15-watt soldering
iron won't be up to the job ...).

Use a car battery clamp and plenty of grease.

Never, ever use "Grease" (or any other lubricant/protectant) in an
electrical connection for RF. Grease is a dialectric (so is silicone) and
it
will ensure you have practically no electrical connection at all.


If there is a conductive path before the grease is applied does it matter?

Thanks for the injection of sense, Brian. As I say elsewhere, you
wouldn't paint it first then make the connection.

OTOH, perhaps that's whey no-one has heard Bean on the bands.....
--
from
Aero Spike