I purchased two of these recently for a good price – both in what seemed to be
great shape... I’m converting them to 15M6DX’s ... will be range testing the
conversion soon using a hex-copter and a extreme light weight dipole/XG3
exciter ... anyway in rebuilding this antenna I found that where the boom
sections come together, the swaged ends now have ‘slots’ where the bolt goes
through! I’ll drill 2 new holes the proper diameter and then add heavy duty
rivets to help ensure this doesn’t happen again. Only one of the 2 that I have
has this – they were taken down from a stack so I can only guess that it
doesn’t happen always or maybe the top antenna in that previous installation
was the one that developed slots.
Gary
K9RX
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