[Elecraft] [W2] Waterproofing the sensor

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Very useful info Gary - so 'remote' is'nt quite so remote as I had in mind :-(.

could anyone who has gone more that a few feet reply with how far they have gone with it reliably working please?
73 de David, M0XDF (K3 #174, P3 #108)
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On 28 Jan 2012, at 08:36, Gary Hinson wrote:

> Hi David.
> 
> I haven't waterproofed the sensor head but I did experiment with a ~30m long
> Ethernet cable to see whether I could locate a second sensor at my remote
> antenna switch plus the one near the rig, to check the feeder loss.  It
> didn't work out.  Looking at the schematics, I think there are resistors in
> the lines inside the sensor box that might be worth bypassing to see if I
> can get enough signal back for a realistic reading, but I ran out of play
> time before being able to try that.