Tom good luck, when I got licensed and of course no money to buy all the
new coax I needed, I used the old coax that I had from 10 yrs earlier
during the CB days...ok I'll take my 40 lashes for the CB days
confession...but not being a real smart novice, I had the coax up the
poles and tower with no sealant and it ran straight down thru the attic
into a closet to the rigs..At some time I had an extra run coiled up and
I kept seeing the carpet wet and finally found out that the water was
running in thru the coax!!!! So much for that coax.
73 and GL
John
KO4XJ
Tom Anderson wrote:
> Fellow (and lady) hams:
>
> In installing new more energy efficient windows at our
> home QTH in North Texas we had to remove the old
> window feed through (made by now out of business
> Lambda-Vector Company)and the cables were left
> outside, yes I forgot to seal them in plastic or
> something else. Two runs of RG213 and one of 9913.
> Any hope of saving them such as cutting off several
> feet at the former PL259 that led inside, or should I
> scrap the whole thing and just spent the $$$ for new
> RG213 and a run of LMR400? I hope to save some of the
> 213 and 9913 to use for
>
> Yes I messed up (40 lashes will be administered with a
> wet piece of 9913), but things were hectic around here
> with the window company. The windows were installed
> back in October and we're still fighting with the
> window company to correct things such as scratches on
> the painted frames, the kitchen window was installed
> crooked, the edges of several windows look like
> someone took a hammer to them and are so burred up
> that my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) actually cut her hand trying
> to raise one.
>
> I've since bought an MFJ window feed through (sure
> wish they had more than 3 SO239s feed throughs
> installed, maybe 5 or so)since I'm not a fan of twin
> lead (oh boy that'll start a discussion I know)and
> just waiting for the windows to be fixed before
> finally getting everything in order.
>
> I don't want the window company somehow blaming my
> coax installation for all of the window problems.
>
> Now whenever I want to make a QSO I raise the window a
> few inches and run a new short piece of coax out to
> the old and use a barrel connector to tie them
> together.
>
> Tom, WW5L
>
>
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