[ARC5] Antenna wire beads

[David Stinson]

"Clarence M. Owens" wrote:

>First, what type of wire was used, solid or stranded? 
The wire was a stiff, solid copperweld of about #18.
 
> Why did they not run the beads through the
> standoffs....
Don't know

> how did they keep the beads in place...
At the end of each string, a "washer" was soldered to the wire.
The "washer" was a metal disk with a hole the same size as the 
copperweld wire, through which the wire past.  One of these was 
soldered onto the wire, the beads were strung and another soldered
onto the other end to hold them.  The wire was bent after the washers
to make the proper connection.

> Third, were the beads used on the Command Set receiver antenna wiring..
My original wiring harness has the receivers "daisy chained"
with white, DCC wire of about #18 stranded.  left to right in 
a three receiver rack, a jumper went from the 3MC receiver to the
LF receiver.  Then the end of another jumper was twisted together
with the end that goes into the LF jack and soldered.  The end of 
that jumper was twisted and soldered to the same type of wire,
pushed into the 6MC receiver and the end taken to the antenna relay.
The result was a "daisy chained" wire connection (no beads) that
gave the same antenna to all the receivers.  Each part of the jumper
is marked with wire numbers matching those shown in the SCR-274N manual
wiring section.

73 Dave S.