[Elecraft] Antenna Question

[Josh Fiden]

With an unbroken feedline, a failure or antenna swap can require 
soldering connectors up the tower. Not fun. If you're concerned about 
the additional loss of a barrel connector at 50MHz, you should be using 
feedline with lower loss than LMR400 up the tower. Wrap the barrel 
connection with good quality 3m vinyl tape and paint over with 
Scotchkote to keep water out.

YMMV!

73,
Josh W6XU

On 10/10/2016 3:44 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
> I believe the use of a single
> unbroken feedline from the antenna to the shack (when possible) trumps
> the inconvenience of properly engineering an install that does NOT put
> unnecessary repetitive bending moments on the line.