At 06:47 PM 10/18/1999 -0500, Bill Parry wrote:
>
>The wind definitely blows the cell on the C-3 around. My AL1500 faults
>fairly often when the wind is blowing. During the CW SS contest last year,
>my C-3 failed. After getting up to the antenna and checking the problem, I
>found the coax connector at the balun had failed. I believe, without hard
>evidence, that two elements touched in the wind and caused this failure.
>Tom told me that he had not had a balun fail, and I had been using the
>antenna for about six months prior to the failure.
>
>I sure would like to see a factory fix for this problem. Otherwise, this is
>an excellent antenna and I highly recommend it.
In the photos in their latest catalogue, some of the open-sleeve fed
antennas have what looks like an insulating spacer between driven elements.
That suggests that the parts are probably available to retrofit spacers if
you want to.
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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