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[William Holmes Ferguson]

Gentlemen and Ladies,

Please help me learn about how to protect coax connectors when they are 
located outdoors
in the weather.

I use the Black plastic Caps which fit snugly over the threaded part of
an SO-239. Among other sources DX Engineering sells them.

They do not cover the entire threaded end of the SO-239.
But they do permit leaving an otherwise exposed, located outdoors,
SO-239 at least for a few hours or a couple of days without its
central conductor being exposed to the Weather.

What I don't know and seek answers to is:

Is there an already manufactured "cap" or other invention
which permits the Ham to weather-protect an outdoor-located
PL-259 so that rain can't get in it?

If there is, where do I buy such protective devices?
What's its name?

If not, one wonders why such a device has never been marketed.

As matters now stand, I often wrap a  plastic  "Baggie" or sack
around a PL-259 and use a rubber band to try to make it hug its
coax cable so that rain won't get inside the bag to the metal and
central conductor of the PL-259.

I'm hoping there is, unknown to me, already such convenient,
easy-to-use gadgets on the market.

Please guide me to a source or sources.

Wouldn't it be nice if some manufacturer would make a gadget of plastic
or Neoprene or Rubber which would accept a PL-259 or an SO-239
and would be hinged and have two sides, or halves,  and the device 
would  "Snap! "
over one of those connectors and at the Coax Cable end would have
a rubber or neoprene washer/gasket which would press firmly,
snugly, tightly to the cable and be waterproof all over?

Special made small balloons of tough rubber might be used with a rubber 
band.

Other ideas how to temporarily protect PL-259's and SO-239's are solicited.


Many thanks,

William
W4DSR